Introduction: Victorian Middle-Class Status and the Negative Assertion of Value

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Introduction: Victorian Middle-Class Status and the Negative Assertion of Value 1
5. 1. The Orphan Narratives of a Class Lacking Antecedents 26
6. 2. Repudiations of Wealth in Victorian Financial Fiction 61
7. 3. The Violence at the Heart of the Social Problem Novel 99
8. 4. Social Domination, Social Scientific Empiricism, and Novelistic Distrust of the Modern Fact 136
9. 5. Legitimizing the Subjection of Middle-Class Women in Mid-Victorian Fiction 173
10. Afterword 209
11. Bibliography 214
12. Index 230