Working-Class Writing: Theory and Practice 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3319963104
• ISBN-13: 9783319963105
• Author: Ben Clarke, Nick Hubble
  

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
Part I. Theories
2. Working-Class Writing and Experimentation
3. Interwoven Histories: Working Class Literature and Theory
4. Meaning It: Everyday Hermeneutics and the Language of Class in Literary Scholarship
5. Kings in Disguise and ‘Pure Ellen Kellond’: Literary Social Passing in the Early Twentieth Century
6. Democratic Art or Working-Class Literature? Virginia Woolf, the Women’s Cooperative Guild and Literary Value in the ‘Introductory Letter’
7. The Bakhtin Circle in Caribbean London: Race, Class and Narrative Strategy
8. “Look at the State of This Place!”: The Impact of Domestic Space on Post-war Class Consciousness
Part II. Practices
9. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s Helen of Four Gates: Recasting Melodrama in Novel and Cinematic Form
10. Representation of the Working Classes of the British Colonies and/as the Subalterns in Mulk Raj Anand’s Coolie
11. London Jewish … and Working-Class? Social Mobility and Boundary-Crossing in Simon Blumenfeld and Alexander Baron
12. The Deindustrial Novel: Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the Working Class
13. Working-Class Heritage Revisited in Alan Warner’s The Deadman’s Pedal
14. Respectability, Nostalgia and Shame in Contemporary English Working-Class Fiction

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