1. Peter Pan
Something uncanny is going to happen, we expect, for a quiver has passed through the room, just sufficient to touch the night-lights- (97). ... 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 disengaged, and under-waged, so that there was little possibility of accruing excess capital. ... Hence, as Cohen notes, the spectre of failure haunts the middle...
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