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1028888
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b783258
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Day, Gary,1956-
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| Title & Author
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Class /\ Gary Day.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2001.
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| Series Statement
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New critical idiom
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (ix, 239 pages)
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| ISBN
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0203135695
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: 0203177576
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: 0203189396
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: 0415182220
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: 0415182239
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: 1280328592
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: 9780203135693
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: 9780203177570
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: 9780203189399
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: 9780415182225
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: 9780415182232
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: 9781280328596
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-226) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction; A brief history of 'class'; Marx and class; Class and status; Class and exchange; Exchange and 'literature'; Medieval; Class and the peasants; The 'individual'; 'Sir Gareth of Orkney' and social mobility; Piers the Ploughman; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: identity and exchange; Conclusion; The Renaissance; The intelligentsia and class; Renaissance England; The nobility and the gentry; The bourgeoisie; Masterless men; Class or status?; Money, exchange and self; Conclusion; The Civil War and after.
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Class society versus status societyThe body and the bourgeoisie; Classification and capitalist economics; The plain style and the bourgeoisie; Money, self and class; Paradise Lost (1667): bedding down the bourgeois economy; The eighteenth century; The meanings of 'class' and the rise of the middle class; The free market and representation; Reason, the plain style and class; The 'individual', the 'subject' and money; The novel and class.
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| Abstract
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Gary Day traces the phenomenon of class from the medieval to the postmodern period, examining its relevance to literary and cultural analysis today.
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Canon (Literature)
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Criticism-- Political aspects.
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Marxist criticism.
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Social classes in literature.
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Canon (Literature)
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Criticism-- Political aspects.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- Semiotics Theory.
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Marxist criticism.
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Social classes in literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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801/.95
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| LC Classification
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PN98.C6D36 2001
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