Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Representation of Society in the Early Nineteenth Century; Chapter 2 The Interlocked Coding of Class and Gender; Chapter 3 Shirley; Chapter 4 North and South; Chapter 5 Hard Times; Chapter 6 Changes in the Representation of Class in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 7 Felix Holt; Chapter 8 The Unclassed; Chapter 9 Jude the Obscure;

About the Author

Patricia Ingham is Fellow in English at St Anne's College, Oxford, and Times Lecturer in English Language. She has developed what is recognised as an original linguistic model of criticism already used illuminatingly in her previous works, which include Thomas Hardy: A Feminist Reading (1989) and Dickens, Women and Language (1992).