Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status: Forms of Absence in the Age of Reform

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Victorian Middle-class Status And The Negative Assertion Of Value -- 1. The Orphan Narratives Of A Class Lacking Antecedents -- 2. Repudiations Of Wealth In Victorian Financial Fiction -- 3. The Violence At The Heart Of The Social Problem Novel -- 4. Social Domination, Social Scientific Empiricism, And Novelistic Distrust Of The Modern Fact -- 5. Legitimizing The Subjection Of Middle-class Women In Mid-victorian Fiction -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index Albert D. Pionke. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. New York Available Via World Wide Web.