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Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing Kitchen Sink Aesthetics

Lee, Simon
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781350193154
Publisert
2024-07-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Lee, Simon

Biographical note

Simon Lee is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University, USA where he researches and teaches Post-WWII British literature, social class and labour history. He has published on writers such as Colin MacInnes, Shelagh Delaney, John Osborne and Pat Barker, and on topics such as immigration, nationalism and cultural identity.

Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing Kitchen Sink Aesthetics

Lee, Simon
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk
Lee, Simon
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk
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An innovative and intelligent contribution to the rapidly developing field of working-class literary studies and its project of recovering different voices, perspectives, and ways of understanding, of rethinking what literature is and what it does.

English Studies

Simon Lee sets out an important and compelling case for how the kitchen sink realism of the 1950s and 1960s moved beyond 1930s proletarian representations to establish new forms of classed identity, which remain the benchmark for working-class writing today.

Nick Hubble, Professor of Modern and Contemporary English, Brunel University, UK

Centering on the British kitchen sink realism movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, specifically its documentation of the built environment’s influence on class consciousness, this book highlights the settings of a variety of novels, plays, and films, turning to archival research to offer new ways of thinking about how spatial representation in cultural production sustains or intervenes in the process of social stratification. As a movement that used gritty, documentary-style depictions of space to highlight the complexities of working-class life, the period’s texts chronicled shifts in the social and topographic landscape while advancing new articulations of citizenship in response to the failures of post-war reconstruction. By exploring the impact of space on class, this book addresses the contention that critical discourse has overlooked the way the built environment informs class identity.
Les mer
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 “Look at the State of this Place!”—The Impact of Domestic Space on Post-WWII Class ConsciousnessPost-WWII Housing and Classed SpaceTheorizing Domestic Space and Class IdentityDomestic Anxiety in Look Back in AngerRenegotiations of Identity in Saturday Night and Sunday MorningQueering the Domestic in A Taste of Honey2 “Off Down the Local”—Institutional Borders in Working-Class Communities Shared Space and Working-Class Institutions Collective Consciousness and Shared Experience Shared Space and Identity Formation in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Class Migration and Social Stasis in This Sporting Life Contours of Class and Mobility in Up the Junction3 Spatial Transgression and The Working-Class Imaginary Theorizing Spatial Transgression: From the Production of Space to the Non-Space Transgressive Space and Post-WWII Potentiality Spatial Transgression and the Working-Class Imaginary in Up the Junction Subterranean Space and Diasporic Demimondes in City of Spades Differential Space and Inversion in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner4 Against Class Fetishism: The Legacy of Kitchen Sink RealismA Genealogy of the Realist Mode: Form Versus FunctionCritical Approaches to Kitchen Sink AestheticsMultimedia Motifs and Kitchen Sink ThematicsCommodified “Kitsch-en” Sinks in Coronation StreetChannel 4 and Coordinated Class EffectsTheaters of Anger and AggressionClass and Space in Contemporary FictionConclusionBibliographyIndex
Les mer
An innovative and intelligent contribution to the rapidly developing field of working-class literary studies and its project of recovering different voices, perspectives, and ways of understanding, of rethinking what literature is and what it does.
Les mer
This book offers a unique approach to the evaluation of class-conscious cultural production, focusing on the way mid-century writers deployed spatial metaphors as a method by which to merge aesthetic and ethical imperatives.
Les mer
Focuses on the currently understudied British kitchen sink realism movementy of the late 1950s and early 1960s

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An innovative and intelligent contribution to the rapidly developing field of working-class literary studies and its project of recovering different voices, perspectives, and ways of understanding, of rethinking what literature is and what it does.

English Studies

Simon Lee sets out an important and compelling case for how the kitchen sink realism of the 1950s and 1960s moved beyond 1930s proletarian representations to establish new forms of classed identity, which remain the benchmark for working-class writing today.

Nick Hubble, Professor of Modern and Contemporary English, Brunel University, UK

Centering on the British kitchen sink realism movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, specifically its documentation of the built environment’s influence on class consciousness, this book highlights the settings of a variety of novels, plays, and films, turning to archival research to offer new ways of thinking about how spatial representation in cultural production sustains or intervenes in the process of social stratification. As a movement that used gritty, documentary-style depictions of space to highlight the complexities of working-class life, the period’s texts chronicled shifts in the social and topographic landscape while advancing new articulations of citizenship in response to the failures of post-war reconstruction. By exploring the impact of space on class, this book addresses the contention that critical discourse has overlooked the way the built environment informs class identity.
Les mer
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 “Look at the State of this Place!”—The Impact of Domestic Space on Post-WWII Class ConsciousnessPost-WWII Housing and Classed SpaceTheorizing Domestic Space and Class IdentityDomestic Anxiety in Look Back in AngerRenegotiations of Identity in Saturday Night and Sunday MorningQueering the Domestic in A Taste of Honey2 “Off Down the Local”—Institutional Borders in Working-Class Communities Shared Space and Working-Class Institutions Collective Consciousness and Shared Experience Shared Space and Identity Formation in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Class Migration and Social Stasis in This Sporting Life Contours of Class and Mobility in Up the Junction3 Spatial Transgression and The Working-Class Imaginary Theorizing Spatial Transgression: From the Production of Space to the Non-Space Transgressive Space and Post-WWII Potentiality Spatial Transgression and the Working-Class Imaginary in Up the Junction Subterranean Space and Diasporic Demimondes in City of Spades Differential Space and Inversion in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner4 Against Class Fetishism: The Legacy of Kitchen Sink RealismA Genealogy of the Realist Mode: Form Versus FunctionCritical Approaches to Kitchen Sink AestheticsMultimedia Motifs and Kitchen Sink ThematicsCommodified “Kitsch-en” Sinks in Coronation StreetChannel 4 and Coordinated Class EffectsTheaters of Anger and AggressionClass and Space in Contemporary FictionConclusionBibliographyIndex
Les mer
An innovative and intelligent contribution to the rapidly developing field of working-class literary studies and its project of recovering different voices, perspectives, and ways of understanding, of rethinking what literature is and what it does.
Les mer
This book offers a unique approach to the evaluation of class-conscious cultural production, focusing on the way mid-century writers deployed spatial metaphors as a method by which to merge aesthetic and ethical imperatives.
Les mer
Focuses on the currently understudied British kitchen sink realism movementy of the late 1950s and early 1960s

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350193154
Publisert
2024-07-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Lee, Simon

Biographical note

Simon Lee is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University, USA where he researches and teaches Post-WWII British literature, social class and labour history. He has published on writers such as Colin MacInnes, Shelagh Delaney, John Osborne and Pat Barker, and on topics such as immigration, nationalism and cultural identity.

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