Patricia E Johnson Hidden Hands: Working- Class Women and Victorian Social-Problem Fiction.

Patricia E Johnson Hidden Hands: Working- Class Women and Victorian Social-Problem Fiction. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Pres 2001 Pp ix, 224 $2495 paper. ISBN 0-8214-1389-9

Critics of Victorian literature have still to engage class with anything like the rapture we have brought to sex and race. Regenia Gagnier, Patrick Brantlinger, Florence Boo and Susan Zlotnick are among the scholars who have done pioneering work in the field, to this time the temptation remains stout to veer away from class into topics that are les discomfiting to our acknowledge bourgeois professional ...

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