Cover Image

The happiness of the British working class /

For working-class life writers in nineteenth century Britain, happiness was a multifaceted emotion: a concept that could describe experiences of hedonic pleasure, foster and deepen social relationships, drive individuals to self-improvement and lead them to look back over their lives and evaluate wh...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bronstein, Jamie L., 1968- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023].
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Working class authors > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Happiness in literature. Working class in literature. Autobiography.

Similar Items

The industrial muse : a study of nineteenth century British working-class literature /
by: Vicinus, Martha
Published: (1975)

Aristocracies of fiction : the idea of aristocracy in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century literary culture /
by: Platt, Len
Published: (2001)

The voice of toil : nineteenth-century British writings about work /
Published: (2000)

British Romanticism and the science of the mind /
by: Richardson, Alan, 1955-
Published: (2001)

Toward a working-class canon : literary criticism in British working-class periodicals, 1816-1858 /
by: Murphy, Paul Thomas, 1957-
Published: (1994)

Fatherhood and the British working class, 1865-1914 /
by: Strange, Julie-Marie, 1973-
Published: (2015)

The Crimean War in the British imagination /
by: Markovits, Stefanie, 1971-
Published: (2009)

Class in late-Victorian Britain : the narrative concern with social hierarchy and its representation /
by: Swafford, Kevin
Published: (2007)

The Routledge research companion to nineteenth-century British literature and science /
Published: (2017)

Other mothers : beyond the maternal ideal /
Published: (2008)

Educating the proper woman reader : Victorian family literary magazines and the cultural health of the nation /
by: Phegley, Jennifer
Published: (2004)

Victorian literature and the Victorian state : character and governance in a liberal society /
by: Goodlad, Lauren M. E.
Published: (2003)

Victorian literature and the Victorian state : character and governance in a liberal society /
by: Goodlad, Lauren M. E.
Published: (2003)

Masculinity and the English working class : studies in Victorian autobiography and fiction /
by: Lee, Y. S. (Ying S.), 1974-
Published: (2007)

Victorian photography and literary nostalgia /
by: Groth, Helen
Published: (2003)

The spectacle of intimacy : a public life for the Victorian family /
by: Chase, Karen, 1952-
Published: (2000)

Living forms : Romantics and the monumental figure /
by: Haley, Bruce, 1933-
Published: (2003)

War of no pity : the Indian Mutiny and Victorian trauma /
by: Herbert, Christopher, 1941-
Published: (2008)

Narratives of child neglect in Romantic and Victorian culture /
by: Benziman, Galia, 1968-
Published: (2012)

Women and British aestheticism /
Published: (1999)

Shaping belief : culture, politics and religion in nineteenth-century writing /
Published: (2008)

The affective life of the average man : the Victorian novel and the stock-market graph /
by: Jaffe, Audrey
Published: (2010)

The British avant-garde : the theory and politics of tradition /
by: Guy, Josephine M., 1963-
Published: (1991)

The Chartist imaginary : literary form in working-class political theory and practice /
by: Loose, Margaret A., 1967-
Published: (2015)

Feminist readings of Victorian popular texts : divergent femininities /
Published: (2001)

Literature and revolution : British responses to the Paris Commune of 1871 /
by: Holland, Owen (Literary critic)
Published: (2022)

Romanticism and the human sciences : poetry, population, and the discourse of the species /
by: McLane, Maureen N.
Published: (2000)

Becoming a woman of letters : myths of authorship and facts of the Victorian market /
by: Peterson, Linda H.
Published: (2009)

War, the army and Victorian literature /
by: Peck, John, 1947-
Published: (1998)

British literature and the life of institutions : speculative states /
by: Kohlmann, Benjamin, 1981-
Published: (2021)

The trial of woman : feminism and the occult sciences in Victorian literature and society /
by: Barsham, Diana
Published: (1992)

Women of faith in Victorian culture : reassessing the angel in the house /
Published: (1998)

Masculinity and spirituality in Victorian culture /
Published: (2000)

Literature and photography in transition, 1850-1915 /
by: Clayton, Owen
Published: (2015)

The lives of machines : the industrial imaginary in Victorian literature and culture /
by: Ketabgian, Tamara Siroone, 1969-
Published: (2011)

Romantic writing and the empire of signs : periodical culture and post-Napoleonic authorship /
by: Fang, Karen (Karen Y.), 1973-
Published: (2010)

Romantic writing and the empire of signs : periodical culture and post-Napoleonic authorship /
by: Fang, Karen (Karen Y.), 1973-
Published: (2010)

British women writers and race, 1788-1818 : narrations of modernity /
by: Wright, Eamon, 1962-
Published: (2005)

Sexual politics and the romantic author /
by: Hofkosh, Sonia
Published: (1998)

Child murder and British culture, 1720-1900 /
by: McDonagh, Josephine
Published: (2003)