This book updates our understanding of working-class fiction by focusing on its continued relevance to the social and intellectual contexts of the age of Trump and Brexit. The volume draws together new and established scholars in the field, whose intersectional analyses use postcolonial and feminist ideas, amongst others, to explore key theoretical approaches to working-class writing and discuss works by a range of authors, including Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, Jack Hilton, Mulk Raj Anand, Simon Blumenfeld, Pat Barker, Gordon Burn, and Zadie Smith. A key informing argument is not only that working-class writing shows ‘working class’ to be a diverse and dynamic rather than monolithic category, but also that a greater critical attention to class, and the working class in particular, extends both the methods and objects of literary studies. This collection will appeal to students, scholars and academics interested in working-class writing and the need to diversify the curriculum.
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1. Working-Class Writing and Experimentation - Ben Clarke.- 2. Interwoven Histories: Working Class Literature & Theory - Jack Windle.- 3. Meaning It: Everyday Hermeneutics and the Language of Class in Literary Scholarship - Cassandra Falke.- 4. Kings in Disguise and 'Pure Ellen Kellond': Literary Social Passing in the Early Twentieth Century - Luke Seaber.- 5. Democratic Art or Working-Class Literature? Virginia Woolf, the Women's Cooperative Guild and Literary Value in the 'Introductory Letter' - Natasha Periyan.- 6. The Bakhtin Circle in Caribbean London: Race, Class and Narrative Strategy - Matti Ron.- 7. 'Look at the State of this Place!': The Impact of Domestic Space on Post-War Class Consciousness - Simon Lee.- 8. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's Helen of Four Gates: Recasting Melodrama in Novel and Cinematic Form - Pamela Fox.- 9. Representation of the Working Classes of the British Colonies and/as the Subalterns in Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie - Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay.-10. London Jewish... and Working-Class? Social and Geographic Mobility in Simon Blumenfeld and Alexander Baron - Jason Finch.- 11. The Deindustrialist Novel: Twenty-first Century British fiction and the Working Class - Phil O'Brien.- 12. Working-Class Heritage Revisited in Alan Warner's The Deadman's Pedal - Peter Clandfield.- 13. Respectability, Nostalgia and Shame in Contemporary English Working-Class Fiction - Nick Hubble.
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There has been a significant rise in interest in working-class fiction over the last decade but most of the key critical works on the topic date from the late 1980s to mid-1990s - this collection rethinks issues relating to working class fiction and the critical work relating to it Examines a broad range of writers, from Woolf to Orwell Argues for a heterogeneous model of the working class that functions as a strategic rather than a descriptive term and is always mobilised within particular historical contexts
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9783319963099
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2018-11-29
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Springer International Publishing AG
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210 mm
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148 mm
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Research, P, U, 06, 05
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Engelsk
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Biographical note
Ben Clarke is Associate Professor of Post-1900 British Literature at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA. He is author of Orwell in Context (2007) and co-author of Understanding Richard Hoggart (2011). He has published on subjects including public house and mining communities, and authors including Jack Hilton, H. G. Wells, Edward Upward, and Virginia Woolf.
Nick Hubble is Reader in English at Brunel University London, UK and the author of Mass Observation and Everyday Life (2006) and The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question (2017).