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Chapter 33 - Class Status and Social Identity

from Part IV - Contexts: Cultural and Social

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2023

By
Jenny Bourne Taylor
Edited by
William Baker  and
Richard Nemesvari
William Baker
Affiliation:
Hangzhou Normal University, China and Northern Illinois University
Richard Nemesvari
Affiliation:
Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario
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Summary

Collins’s fiction often exposes the constructed nature of class and social identity by demonstrating how unstable such supposedly ’fixed’ identifiers are, most notably in The Woman in White and No Name.

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Class IdentityStatus InstabilityThe Woman in WhiteNo Name
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Wilkie Collins in Context , pp. 299 - 308
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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