... In contrast, as Ed Cohen notes in Talk on the Wilde Side, "agricultural labourers and the industrial working classes [ ] were largely determined by the material constraints circumscribing their lives- (19), which is to say that the work in which they engaged was mainly physical, intellectually ... of the middle class acquire savings. But the margin of comfort afforded by such savings tends to be limited, and so an economic depression can lead to financial demise for those in the middle class. Hence, as Cohen notes, the spectre of failure haunts the middle ... the production of discour...

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