Edwardian Hegemony in Tressell and Sassoon

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_10818
dc.title	Edwardian Hegemony in Tressell and Sassoon
dc.contributor.author	Melia Paul
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/english-literature/2022/1/edwardian-hegemony-in-tressell-and-sassoon/
dc.description.abstract	Ostensibly, all that connects Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914) and Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928) is that their authors lived in south-east England during the early 1900s and wrote about their experiences. Otherwise, they came from the opposing ends of British society, and their novels were written nearly twenty years apart. That the two works correspond in their portrayals of English society – one as invective, the other as eulogy – is revealing of coeval attitudes, especially of views and behaviour based on social class. Reading other novels and plays of the time shows to what degree concepts of what was socially appropriate held sway over Edwardian fiction.
dc.relation.ispartof	English Literature
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 9 \| December 2022
dc.issued	2023-04-13
dc.dateAccepted	2022-12-26
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-10-17
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2420-823X
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2022/01/007
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Social Class
dc.subject	Conservative Consensus
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	Ignored Masses
dc.subject	Pastoral Ideal
dc.subject	Social Class
dc.subject	Sport

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Paul Melia Instituto Politecnico de Castelo Branco

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abstract

Ostensibly, all that connects Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914) and Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928) is that their authors lived in south-east England during the early 1900s and wrote about their experiences. Otherwise, they came from the opposing ends of British society, and their novels were written nearly twenty years apart. That the two works correspond in their portrayals of English society – one as invective, the other as eulogy – is revealing of coeval attitudes, especially of views and behaviour based on social class. Reading other novels and plays of the time shows to what degree concepts of what was socially appropriate held sway over Edwardian fiction.

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April 13, 2023

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Dec. 26, 2022

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Oct. 17, 2022

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Keywords: Education • Pastoral Ideal • <div>Social Class • Social Class • Conservative Consensus • Sport • Ignored Masses

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