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Bonus 2: Victorian Class and Gender
Re: Dracula
The Blacksmith's Boy and the Black Smirky's
Great expectations is great novel for this it's such a weird novel in terms of social mobility. Dickens wants us to believe actually being a gentleman is more than rank and status but the middle classes didn't have that. When Pip tries to emulate what he thinks a gentleman is he himself becomes not a particularly nice person. I think there's something really interesting when we look at middle class writers about how they viewed class.
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