Class Fictions

"This is the most subtle and yet uncompromising study of working-class fiction to date. Pamela Fox's argument not only displays intelligence at every turn, it also has the kind of integrity it takes to resist the moralizing that accompanies most analyses of working-class culture. It is destined to disturb as well as to inform those who work on cultural studies, nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, or cultural history 'from the bottom up.'"--Nancy Armstrong, Brown University