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This item is part of the Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements (PRISM) digital collection, a collaborative initiative between Florida Atlantic University and University of Central Florida in the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM).

Bringing together historical, literary and sociological theory, this study recaptures the Victorians' broad sense of epistemological uncertainty about their rapidly changing society, reconstructs novelists' specific attempts to legitimate their traditionally low-status genre and offers fresh readings of novels by Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, William North, Anthony Trollope, William Makepeace Thackeray and Charlotte Yonge, among others.

"The aim of this collection is to make possible the forging of a more robust, politically useful, and theoretically elaborate understanding of working-class literature(s). These essays map a substantial terrain: the history of working-class literature(s) in Russia/The Soviet Union, The USA, Finland, Sweden, The UK, and Mexico. Together they give a complex and comparative – albeit far from comprehensive – picture of working-class literature(s) from an international perspective, without losing sight of national specificities. By capturing a wide range of definitions and literatures, this collection gives a broad and rich picture of the many-facetted phenomenon of working-class literature(s), disrupts narrow understandings of the concept and phenomenon, as well as identifies and discusses some of the most important theoretical and historical questions brought to the fore by the study of this literature. If read as stand-alone chapters, each contribution gives an overview of the history and research of a particular nation's working-class literature. If read as an edited collection (which we hope you do), they contribute toward a more complex understanding of the global phenomenon of working-class literature(s)."

POLITICAL PARTICIPATION, MULTI-PARTY POLITICS, AN END TO CORRUPTION, A FREER PRESS, ENIVRONMENTAL CLEAN-UP AND OTHER THINGS AS WELL, CAN BE SEEN EMERGING ON THE EAST ASIAN SCENE. THE INVISIBLE HAND GUIDING THIS CHANGE IS A SELF-CONFIDENT, AND INCREASINGLY ARTICULATE MIDDLE CLASS. THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES THE CHARACTER OF THE NEW BOURGEOISISE, HOW TO MAINTAIN THE BALANCE, AND, THE ASIAN WAY. IT ARGUES THAT THIS CHANGE REPRESENTS THE ANXIOUS AND OFTEN PROACTIVE ATTEMPT BY A VIRTUOUS MANDARINATE TO MAINTAIN HARMONY, BALANCE, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN A WORLD THAT ALWAYS THREATENS TO DISSOLVE INTO DERACINATING UNCERTAINTY.