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“Stories from the Outside”: Representations of the Underclass in Nineteenth and Twenty-first Century Britain
- Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 50, Number 3, July 2012
- pp. 12-24
- 10.1353/bkb.2012.0091
- Article
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In contemporary British society images of a dangerous, feral underclass have taken root in popular culture although the reading middle classes know very little about the everyday lives of people who are routinely marginalised and stigmatised.