Masculinity and the English Working Class Pyrrole the author draws a vivid

the author draws a vivid picture of what country life was like for the vast majority of English villagers – agricultural labourers

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Masculinity and the English Working Class Pyrrole the author draws a vividThis book examines representations of working class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body and demonstrates that working class masculinities differ substantially from those of the widely studied upper classes. The book also maps the relationship between two trends: the early nineteenth century efflorescence of published working class autobiographies (in which working