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Gunasekaran N and Bhuvaneshwari S. "History Turmoil And Politico-Cultural Conditions of the Sub-Continental Men In Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND HUMANITIES 2, no. 2 (2015): 26–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.26524/ijsth48.

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Salman Rushdie remains a major Indian writer in English. His birth coincides with the birth of a new modern nation on August 15, 1947. He has been justly labelled by the critics as a post-colonial writer who knows his trade well. His second novel Midnight’s Children was published in 1981 and it raised a storm in the hitherto middle class world of fiction writing both in English and in vernaculars. Rushdie for the first time burst into the world of fiction with subversive themes like impurity, illegitimacy, plurality and hybridity. He understands that a civilization called India may be profitab

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NISSEN, AXEL. "A Tramp at Home." Nineteenth-Century Literature 60, no. 1 (2005): 57–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2005.60.1.57.

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Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) contains the materials for a wide-ranging analysis of the different and competing understandings of American manhood in the nineteenth century and the ways in which men might interact with each other and love each other. In order to understand better the sexual and emotional dynamics of the novel, we must understand the other kinds of writings about men alone and together that Twain was responding to. In this essay I place Twain's classic novel in two nineteenth-century discursive contexts that have been obscured in the existing criticism: the

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Zachs, Fruma. "Subversive Voices of Daughters of the Nahḍa: Alice al-Bustani and Riwayat Saʾiba (1891)". Hawwa 9, № 3 (2011): 332–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920811x599149.

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Abstract The novel, or more generally, narrative fiction—a new genre of Arabic literature—fuelled the imagination of middle-class youth during the nineteenth-century Arabic nahḍa (awakening), and was thus revolutionary by definition. These narratives were implicit critiques of middle-class society. Although research on earlier novels of the nahḍa authored by men has gradually increased over the last few decades, research on women writers and their novels is still in its infancy. This essay focuses mainly on Riwayat Saʾiba (1891), written by Alice Bustani (1870–1926), daughter of one of the p

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Harris, Jacqueline H. "Differentiating Female Adolescent Bodies in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend : The Historic Thames and Menstrual Metaphors." Rocky Mountain Review 78, no. 1 (2024): 50–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2024.a937347.

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Abstract: In analyzing nineteenth-century fiction featuring and written for the coming-of-age female, I show how authors manifested their own authorized vocabularies in relation to bio-politics—a coded language that euphemistically, metaphorically, and thematically reveals the signs of the sexually developing female body. In so doing, these men and women defy hierarchical structures of the dominant medical, scientific, political, and social communities that enforced codes of propriety upon others by their dissemination of texts to lower-, middle-, and upper-class audiences that include these p

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Gilfoyle, Timothy J. "The Hearts of Nineteenth-Century Men: Bigamy and Working-Class Marriage in New York City, 1800–1890." Prospects 19 (October 1994): 135–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300005081.

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In 19th-century america, the bigamous marriage became a controversial subject and repeated cultural metaphor. From popular fiction to sensationalistic journalism to purity reform literature, writers repeatedly employed bigamy as a moral signpost warning readers of the sexual dangers and illicit deceptions of urban life. Middle-class Americans in particular envisioned the male bigamist as a particular type of confidence man. Like gamblers and “sporting men,” these figures prowled the parlors of respectable households in search of hapless, innocent women whom they looked to conquer and seduce, d

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Conary, Jennifer. "The Anti-Marriage Plot: The Mistress as Heroine in G.W.M. Reynolds's Rosa Lambert." Victorian Review 49, no. 2 (2024): 259–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2024.a936090.

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Abstract: This essay uses George W.M. Reynolds's novel Rosa Lambert; or, The Memoirs of an Unfortunate Woman (1853) as a case study to illustrate various types of "anti-marriage" plots circulating in Victorian popular fiction in the 1850s—representations of romantic and sexual relationships that challenge and even subvert middle-class Victorian views of marriage as the only desirable path to domestic happiness, particularly for women. Reynolds's representation of Rosa's successful career as a courtesan and professional mistress demonstrates the parallels between marriage and prostitution while

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Brecke, Anna. "’Arry and ’Arriet Beyond Punch : Tourism and Class Tension in Popular Fiction." Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature 144, no. 1 (2023): 151–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vct.2023.a913513.

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ABSTRACT: Rising lower- and middle-class Victorians benefited from affordable opportunities for travel, with the hospitality industry newly opened to travelers of all socioeconomic backgrounds. Travel destinations, domestic and international, became spaces of contention, shared by the wealthy—accustomed to privilege—and the lower classes—who aimed to share in that privilege. Popular periodicals satirized these developments, as in the Punch character ’Arry, a Cockney man known for following the latest trends, including travel. Symbolizing the generic lower-class tourist, ’Arry also appears in n

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Bailey, Peter. "White Collars, Gray Lives? The Lower Middle Class Revisited." Journal of British Studies 38, no. 3 (1999): 273–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/386195.

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The lower middle class has long had a bad press, for in common with other subaltern groups it has been more represented from without than within. Thus Victorian writers faced with the disquieting irruption of a new breed of petty bourgeois shop and office workers devised a parodic discourse of littleness, whose feminized tropes rendered the clerk as socially insignificant as the sequestered Victorian woman. George Grossmith's comic classic, Diary of a Nobody, pilloried the new social type in Mr. Pooter, whose smaller-than-life adventures stood for all that was ineffectual, pretentious, and ban

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Vogt, Matthew T., Yuen Pun Chow, Jenny Fernandez, Chase Grubman, and Dylan Stacey. "Designing a Reading Curriculum to Teach the Concept of Empathy to Middle Level Learners." Voices from the Middle 23, no. 4 (2016): 38–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/vm201628571.

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Postmodern forms of young adult literature encourage readers to not only question and challenge the status quo but to implement changes to the world around them.—Realistic YA fiction works like Wonder by R.J. Palacio and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie are no exception to this phenomenon.—Both push young readers to view people with disabilities and people from unfortunate economic circumstances from empathetic rather than sympathetic perspectives.—Realistic picturebooks, specifically ones that explore concepts of disabilities and social class, also play a role

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Khan, Nuzhat, and Kavita Pant. "DEVELOPMENT OR DEGENERATION – THE DENOUEMENT OF THE INDIAN URBAN MIDDLE-CLASS AMBITIONS: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF ARAVIND ADIGA’S LAST MAN IN TOWER." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED RESEARCH IN COMMERCE, MANAGEMENT & SOCIAL SCIENCE 07, no. 04(I) (2025): 205–10. https://doi.org/10.62823/ijarcmss/7.4(i).7076.

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Aravind Adiga with his debut novel, The White Tiger for which he won the Man Booker Prize in 2008, became a significant writer of contemporary fiction in the canon of Indian English Literature. His other works include Last Man in Tower, Selection Day, Amnesty, and a collection of short stories, Between the Assassinations. Adiga’s fiction covers primarily the so-called progressive attitude of India as a postcolonial nation. The economic divide, the social margins, and the concept of the ‘other’ in its varied forms are the nuances around which Adiga builds his stories. The urban middle-class, as

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Kallander, Amy. "Transnational Intimacies and the Construction of the New Nation." French Politics, Culture & Society 39, no. 1 (2021): 108–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2021.390106.

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Abstract This article examines love as a facet of nation building in constructions of modern womanhood and national identity in the 1950s and 1960s. In Tunisia and France, romantic love was evoked to define an urban, middle-class modernity in which the gender norms implicit in companionate marriage signaled a break with the past. These ideals were represented in fiction and women's magazines and elaborated in the novel genre of the advice column. Yet this celebration was interrupted by concern about “mixed marriage” and the rise of anti-immigrant discrimination targeting North Africans in Fran

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Kallander, Amy. "Transnational Intimacies and the Construction of the New Nation." French Politics, Culture & Society 39, no. 1 (2021): 108–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2020.390106.

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This article examines love as a facet of nation building in constructions of modern womanhood and national identity in the 1950s and 1960s. In Tunisia and France, romantic love was evoked to define an urban, middle-class modernity in which the gender norms implicit in companionate marriage signaled a break with the past. These ideals were represented in fiction and women’s magazines and elaborated in the novel genre of the advice column. Yet this celebration was interrupted by concern about “mixed marriage” and the rise of anti-immigrant discrimination targeting North Africans in France. Refer

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Zhiqing, Xue. "The Realistic Dilemma of Suburban Life: Upon John Cheever’s Work Bullet Park as an Example for American Middle-Class Families." Advances in Social Science and Culture 5, no. 2 (2023): p95. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/assc.v5n2p95.

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Bullet Park is a novel written by American novelist John Cheever in the mid-late 20th century that echos the suburban life of American middle-class families after World War II. As a fictional suburban town, the distinctive existence of Bullet Park is like a utopia attempting to hinder the invasion of real society. The men and women in the town live a glamorous life whilst conceding numerous unknown secrets. Cheever constructs the story into three chapters through the strategy of fragmented writing: Nails, Hammer, and the intersection of Nails and Hammer. The novel fully embodies the hypocritic

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Abdulridha, Ghufran Amer, and Isra Hashim Taher. "Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop." Al-Adab Journal 3, no. 143 (2022): 35–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.31973/aj.v3i143.3936.

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The charming world of fairy tales used to be, for many ages, the favorite world for readers of fiction. Until the moment, these magical tales, their adventurous journeys, and happy endings provide a vital source of enchanting entertainment. Throughout her literary career, Angela Carter (1940-1992), a contemporary British novelist and a short story writer, shows interest in the employment of fairy tales in her works, producing what is called modern fairy tales. Her rewriting of these tales rendered her a remarkable woman advocate who calls for women’s legitimate rights and an appreciation and a

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Bolay, Jordan. "“Same Old Ed, . . . Uncommitted”: BMW Socialism and Post-Roguery in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Early Fiction." Text Matters, no. 9 (December 30, 2019): 118–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.09.07.

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In this paper I assess how Guy Vanderhaeghe’s early fiction criticizes the class-based and civil movements of post-1960s Saskatchewan through the recurring character of Ed. The protagonist of “Man Descending” and “Sam, Soren, and Ed” from Man Descending, the uncollected “He Scores! He Shoots!” and the novel My Present Age, Ed both condemns and epitomizes the contaminated and seductive gestures of the movements’ influences and enterprises. Vanderhaeghe deploys layers of social criticism: the first comments on the new urban progressive generation—the BMW socialists—while another manifests a coun

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Gallo, Callie J. "Seeing the ‘excessively obvious’: The penny press, gender and work in Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin stories." Explorations in Media Ecology 18, no. 4 (2019): 413–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eme_00013_1.

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This article considers the biases of the popular press, the first mass-print medium, alongside the biases of gender and professionalism in Edgar Allan Poe’s early 1840s detective fiction. In the tales ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’, ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’ and ‘The Purloined Letter’, detective C. Auguste Dupin develops unmatched analytical and professional capabilities through his extensive reading of print media and his familiarity with the protocols of the nineteenth-century penny press. Based on the model of the New York Sun, these cheap publications popularized women’s gruesome death

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Elliott, Dorice Williams. "TRANSPORTED TO BOTANY BAY: IMAGINING AUSTRALIA IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY CONVICT BROADSIDES." Victorian Literature and Culture 43, no. 2 (2015): 235–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150314000539.

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The speaker of this ballad(circa 1828) laments the fact that, though he was born of “honest parents,” he became “a roving blade” and has been convicted of an unspecified crime for which he has been sentenced to “Botany Bay,” a popular name for Australia. Although he addresses his audience as “young men of learning,” the rest of the ballad implies that he, as is conventional in the broadside form, is a working-class apprentice gone astray. Like this fictional speaker, approximately 160,000 men and women convicted of crimes ranging from poaching hares to murder – but mostly theft – were transpor

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Medhavi, Prakhar, and Dr Vikash Mohan Sahay. "SUBALTERN STRUGGLES IN NEOLIBERAL METROPOLIS: URBAN INFORMALITY AND ACCUMULATION BY DISPOSSESSION IN ADIGA’S MUMBAI." JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 12, no. 01 (2025): 51–61. https://doi.org/10.54513/joell.2025.12107.

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Adiga's novels, Last Man in Tower and Selection Day, provide a comprehensive view of Mumbai's transformation into the neoliberal cosmos. This research article examines the socio-economic and, to an extant political reality of Mumbai, a prominent example of neoliberal mobility, analyzing the fiction of Aravind Adiga. The study draws the theoretical frameworks from the works of Ananya Roy and David Harvey to scrutinize the socio-economic shifts in Mumbai, focusing on the marginalized voices and the deterioration of the social fabric. David Harvey's conceptualization of neoliberalism as a mode of

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Danytė, Milda. "Fathers of Genius: the Ambiguities of Power in Relations with their Fathers for Three Women Writers, Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Virginia Woolf." Acta humanitarica academiae Saulensis 26 (December 1, 2019): 90–102. https://doi.org/10.15388/ahas.2019.7.

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18th and 19th century British social norms made it very difficult for talented women to become published writers: many of those who were successful owed a good deal to the help of their fathers. This article considers the particular nature of such father-daughter relationships, focusing on three women who became literary celebrities of their time, Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Virginia Woolf. It also poses two questions: why the fathers in these cases acted against the rules for women by encouraging their daughters, and what price the three men paid for breaking rules. Resear

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T., Thimmanna. "A STUDY ON WOMEN'S PREDICAMENT IN SHASHI DESHPANDE'S ROOTS AND SHADOWS." Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities 6, S2 (2019): 135–41. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2580564.

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<em>In modern India, the status of women has been raised in the eyes of law, but they are still far from equal to men in every sphere of life. In practice, they continue to suffer discrimination, harassment, humiliation and exploitation in and outside home. Shashi Deshpande, is an award-winning Indian novelist. She is the second daughter of famous Kannada dramatist and writer Sriranga. She was born in Karnataka and educated in Bombay and Bangalore. Deshpande has degrees in Economics and Law. Shashi Deshpande emerged on the Indian fictional scene in the 1970s. She has created a place for hersel

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T., Thimmanna. "A STUDY ON WOMEN'S PREDICAMENT IN SHASHI DESHPANDE'S ROOTS AND SHADOWS." Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities 6, S2 (2019): 141–47. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2580566.

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<em>In modern India, the status of women has been raised in the eyes of law, but they are still far from equal to men in every sphere of life. In practice, they continue to suffer discrimination, harassment, humiliation and exploitation in and outside home. Shashi Deshpande, is an award-winning Indian novelist. She is the second daughter of famous Kannada dramatist and writer Sriranga. She was born in Karnataka and educated in Bombay and Bangalore. Deshpande has degrees in Economics and Law. Shashi Deshpande emerged on the Indian fictional scene in the 1970s. She has created a place for hersel

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Radder, Mangala, and Nisha Vishnoi. "Depiction of Traditionalism and feminist consciousness in Sudha Murthy’s Fictional." Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education 22, no. 01 (2025): 253–60. https://doi.org/10.29070/60ch9753.

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The influence of Indian literature on the evolution of the English language is felt not just in India, but all throughout the world. One possible explanation is the significant impact of Indian novelists, from their forebears to the current crop of authors. The advent of feminist trailblazers in modern literature has worked to offer a platform to the cause of women's equality. Sudha Murthy is a best-selling novelist who writes in both Kannada and English. She has written several publications, both fictional and nonfictional, including novels, manuals, travelogues, anthologies, and essays. Murt

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Hutner, Gordon. "In the Middle: Fiction, Borders, and Class." CR: The New Centennial Review 1, no. 2 (2001): 89–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ncr.2003.0049.

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Ruchira P Dudhrejiya. "A critical analysis of power dynamics in Vijay Tendulkar's theatrical tapestry." Scientific Temper 15, spl-2 (2024): 166–70. https://doi.org/10.58414/scientifictemper.2024.15.spl-2.26.

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Drama stands out from other literary genres because of its immediate appeal, which offers a level of accessibility that poetry and fiction may not always provide. Drama gains great value from this. Theatrical performances have a rich and distinguished history worldwide. In India, they are well-recognized as a popular kind of folk entertainment. When drama is presented on stage, everyone, even the most uneducated person, can understand it and enjoy it. One of the biggest advantages of drama is this. Conversely, the production of Indian plays in English is a very recent development. Dramatists l

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Kim, Dahye. "Who Is Afraid of Techno-Fiction? The Emergence of Online Science Fiction in the Age of Informatization." Journal of Korean Studies 27, no. 2 (2022): 305–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07311613-9859850.

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Abstract An important and distinctive characteristic of the emergence of South Korean science fiction for an adult readership is its flourishing in digital space, predominantly written by the new generation of middle-class, techno-savvy youth beginning in the late 1980s. This article, which terms these science fiction texts from the late 1980s through the 1990s “techno-fiction,” begins by examining how contemporary literary critics viewed both science fiction and the practice of digital writing as concerning symptoms of “postmodernity” that threatened older aesthetic axioms of the literary fie

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Sharma, Sweta, and Kavita Agnihotri Dr. Kavita Dr. "Chetan Bhagat: The best selling voice of Middle-class young India." International Journal of Advance and Applied Research 12, no. 2 (2024): 291–95. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14650220.

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<strong>Abstract</strong> In 2003, the Rupa publication published a novel titled "Five Point Someone.” Bookstores like “Oxford” and “Crossword” placed it under the “bookshelf genre” of “Indian Fiction.” On commercial frontiers, this new author was competing with literary Laurels like “Arundhati Roy,” Shobha De,” “Sudha Narayan” and Vikram Seth.”  The contents and pricing of the novel “Five Point Someone” was far from this classic league of “Indian Fiction.” It was a tale writt

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Curtin, Mary Elizabeth. "“LIKE BOTTLED WASPS”: BEERBOHM, HUYSMANS, AND THE DECADENTS’ SUBURBAN RETREAT." Victorian Literature and Culture 39, no. 1 (2010): 183–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150310000331.

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Such was George Orwell's vision of suburban life in his 1939 novel Coming Up for Air – a vision of mindless, middle-class consumerism teetering always on the edge of financial ruin – a domestic life-in-death. Over the course of the twentieth century, suburbia has become the topos of bourgeois complacency, the locus of psychic decline. Strange, then, to think that at the end of the nineteenth century, two of Europe's Decadent writers – Max Beerbohm and Joris-Karl Huysmans – could find in the suburbs of London and Paris an aesthetic retreat from the snares of bourgeois urban life. In 1884, Huysm

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Linkon, Sherry Lee. "Men without Work: White Working-Class Masculinity in Deindustrialization Fiction." Contemporary Literature 55, no. 1 (2014): 148–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cli.2014.0003.

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Meyer, Neele. "Challenging Gender and Genre: Women in Contemporary Indian Crime Fiction in English." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 66, no. 1 (2018): 105–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2018-0010.

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Abstract This paper looks at three Indian crime fiction series by women writers who employ different types of female detectives in contemporary India. The series will be discussed in the context of India’s economic growth and the emergence of a new middle class, which has an impact on India’s complex publishing market. I argue that the authors offer new identification figures while depicting a wide spectrum of female experiences within India’s contemporary urban middle class. In accordance with the characteristics of popular fiction, crime fiction offers the possibility to assume new roles wit

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Mark, Rebecca. "Why Aren’t Middle-Class White Women Laughing in Eudora Welty’s Fiction?" Eudora Welty Review 6, no. 1 (2014): 39–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ewr.2014.0011.

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Osteen, M. "Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction." American Literature 74, no. 3 (2002): 680–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-3-680.

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Grundy, Saida. "“An Air of Expectancy”." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 642, no. 1 (2012): 43–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716212438203.

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This qualitative study explores formations of masculinity among students at a historically black all-male college, offering insights into how the institution crafts the manhood of its students in accordance with gender and class ideologies about black male respectability, heteronormativity, and male hegemony. While a plethora of studies on poverty, deviance, and marginalization have highlighted black men “in crisis,” this article examines middle-class black men and explores sites of conflict and difference for this latter group. Three critical insights into middle-class black masculinity are r

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Breton, Rob. "Past and Present in the Folk Fiction of Thomas Cooper." Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature 146, no. 1 (2024): 237–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vct.00019.

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abstract: This paper examines different uses of old-fashioned folk characters in radical and reformist fiction from the 1840s. Focusing on Thomas Cooper's Wise Saws and Modern Instances (1845), it argues that Cooper revised the folk figure to articulate radicalism. Cooper's folk figures contrast the middle-class reformer's counterpart in that the former are a disappearing breed representing quaint values, thus underlining a shift towards a working-class political consciousness and the need for a new critique of industrial-era corruption. Folk nostalgia was more than a means to critique industr

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Wójtewicz, Anna, Alicja Jaskulska, and Łukasz Lutomski-Juryłowicz. "Class Clash: Unpacking Conflicts of Class Affiliation in the Bodily Practices of Polish Men Under 35 Years with Working-Class Origins." Qualitative Sociology Review 20, no. 4 (2024): 6–34. https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.20.4.01.

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The article examines conflicts of class affiliation in the bodily practices of young Polish men of working-class origin. The empirical basis of the analysis is individual in-depth interviews with biographical elements carried out in 2022 as part of a study on the bodily practices of four generations of Polish men. The article contains the state of research on practices in the context of class affiliation. The theoretical framework is based on the concept of classist phantasm and middle-class hegemony. The study shows the critical importance of working-class backgrounds in shaping and controlli

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Klerk, Marianne. "Stadtschmerz: Stories of Loss and Guilt in Times of Gentrification." Amsterdam Museum Journal 2, no. 1 (2024): 176–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.61299/i_b299zm.

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This essay detects a genre of non-fiction, which it coins as Stadtschmerz. In this genre, middle class residents who experience alienation due to gentrification turn this experience into stories of loss and guilt (for being the target group of gentrification). This essay explores four canonical texts of Stadtschmerz from the mid-19th century to the present; the authors explore the gentrifying city as flâneurs and report on their findings in a feuilleton. As such, the essay shows how through expressing Stadtschmerz the middle-class attempts to cope with the making of the middle-class city. In t

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Mao, Peijie. "The Cultural Imaginary of “Middle Society” in Early Republican Shanghai." Modern China 44, no. 6 (2018): 620–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0097700418766827.

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This article explores the cultural imaginary of “middle society” in China through popular writings of the early twentieth century. It pays particular attention to popular print media in early Republican Shanghai, which played a central role in constructing a middle-class cultural identity by offering new sources for imagination and for the configuration of urban modernity. I suggest that the popular imagination of the Chinese middle class can be traced back to the discourse of “middle society,” “utopian stories,” and “industrial fiction” in the 1910s and 1920s. This imaginary of middle society

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Breton, Rob. "Women and Children First: Appropriated Fiction in the Ten Hours’ Advocate." Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 3, no. 2 (2021): 63–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.46911/fsmi1264.

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This article examines interclass strategies to bring about reform in mid-nineteenth century England. It specifically explores the way the Ten Hours’ Advocate, a paper written for the working classes, looked to present itself as a middle-class periodical in order to further the argument for factory reform. In reproducing fiction filched from middle-class periodicals, the Advocate performed its argument for the Factory Bill: that the Bill would ease social tensions, dissipate the Chartist or radical threat, and ensure a “return” to traditional gender roles. The appropriated fiction is mild, rath

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Gordon, Elizabeth. "Sex, speech, and stereotypes: Why women use prestige speech forms more than men." Language in Society 26, no. 1 (1997): 47–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500019400.

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ABSTRACTIt is widely reported that women use more prestige speech forms than men, and style-shift more dramatically than men. This article puts forward the view that this behavior of women is not a matter of self-promotion, but of avoidance. Evidence from a survey of New Zealand middle-class speakers shows that their stereotype of a lower-class female speaker includes potential sexual immorality. Because of society's double standard regarding men's and women's sexual behavior, the stereotype affects women more than men, and could be an explanation for middle-class women's use of prestige forms

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Damaske, Sarah. "Job Loss and Attempts to Return to Work: Complicating Inequalities across Gender and Class." Gender & Society 34, no. 1 (2019): 7–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891243219869381.

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Drawing on data from 100 qualitative interviews with the recently unemployed, this study examines how participants made decisions about attempting to return to work and identifies how class and gender shape these decisions. Middle-class men were most likely to take time to attempt to return to work, middle-class women were most likely to begin a deliberate job search, working-class men were most likely to report an urgent search, and working-class women were most likely to have diverted searches. Financial resources, gendered labor force attachments, and family responsibilities shaped decision

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Richards, Leah. "Class, Crime, and Cannibalism in The String of Pearls; or, The Demon Barber as Bourgeois Bogeyman." Journal of Working-Class Studies 5, no. 1 (2020): 118–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v5i1.6261.

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Although the tale of Sweeney Todd is one with significant cultural resonance, little has been written about the text itself, The String of Pearls. This article argues that the text engages with anxieties about class conflict through a narrative that enacts exaggerated versions of various interactions. In the nineteenth century, critics objected to the cheap fiction pejoratively known as penny dreadfuls, asserting that the genre’s exciting tales of bloodshed, villainy, and mayhem would seduce readers to lives of debauchery and crime, but I argue that this concern about cheap fiction was not for

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Wilson, Lisa, and Shawn Johansen. "Family Men: Middle-Class Fatherhood in Early Industrializing America." Journal of the Early Republic 22, no. 1 (2002): 168. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3124883.

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Roberts, Brian, and Shawn Johansen. "Family Men: Middle-Class Fatherhood in Early Industrializing America." Journal of American History 89, no. 3 (2002): 1037. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3092378.

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Walker, M., A. G. Shaper, and G. Wannamethee. "Height and social class in middle-aged British men." Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 42, no. 3 (1988): 299–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech.42.3.299.

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Ross, Stephen. "Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction (review)." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 48, no. 2 (2002): 488–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2002.0039.

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Shields, Juliet. "Preaching without Practicing: Middle-Class Domesticity in Annie S. Swan's Serial Fiction." Victorian Periodicals Review 52, no. 3 (2019): 566–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2019.0035.

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Carter, Brenda Choresi. "Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction (review)." Modernism/modernity 9, no. 2 (2002): 349–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mod.2002.0025.

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Knighton, Andrew. "Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction (review)." Cultural Critique 56, no. 1 (2004): 213–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cul.2003.0060.

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Armengol, Josep. "Sex and Text: Queering Older Men’s Sexuality in Contemporary U.S. Fiction." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (2020): 826. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.3018.

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Abstract This paper will explore the representation of men’s aging experiences in contemporary U.S. fiction. While most gender-ed approaches to aging have focused on women, which has contributed to the cultural invisibility of older men, this study focuses on men’s aging experiences as men, thus challenging the inverse correlation between masculinity and aging. To do so, the study draws on a selected number of contemporary U.S. male-authored fictional works, which question the widely-held assumption that aging is a lesser concern for men, or that men and women’s aging experiences may be simply

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Sahie, M. Wahib. "FATHERHOOD OF JAVANESE LOW-MIDDLE CLASS." Psychosophia: Journal of Psychology, Religion, and Humanity 1, no. 2 (2020): 82–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.32923/psc.v1i2.884.

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This study aims to explore the masculine identity of the fatherhood of Javanese men and to understand its psychological dynamics through ‘the experience of being a father’. Therefore, the researcher applied hermeneutic-phenomenology study that which is digging beneath the configuration inside and also construct the gender structure. Also, in this study the subject of researchers came from Java residing in Jomblang Karang Bendo and in this study are those who are in the category of low-middle class. The findings in this study explain that fatherhood is constructed through discourse which is a r

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Kulkarni, Vibhati Vasantrao. "A Critical Study of Anuja Chauhan's The Zoya Factor as the Indian Cricket Fiction." International Journal of Advance and Applied Research 10, no. 3 (2023): 38–41. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7583140.

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<em>The Zoya Factor</em> (2008), a best-selling novel by Anuja Chauhan, tells the love story of Zoya Singh Solanki, who is upset being single and Nikhil Khoda, the captain of the Indian Cricket team. The book has drawn attention for its prominent themes, including autobiographical novel, chick lit, young adult fiction and romantic narrative. The author presents 21<sup>st</sup> century middle-class India with subtlety. She narrates humorously the urban middle-class English-educated but bilingual global desi type. The characters in the novel will be showing indianness. The goal of the current st

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