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By examining the representation of urban space in contemporary British fiction, this book argues that key to the political left's strategy was a model of action which folded politics into culture and elevated disenfranchisement to the status of a political principle.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: ‘What We Need Now…’
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Identifying the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement
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Locating Urban Culture in Twenty-First-Century British Fiction
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Back Matter
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“Beaumont ultimately provides a timely, accessible and highly engaging analysis of the battle between left culturalism and Thatcherism, and its subsequent influence on contemporary British literature. … The wide-ranging and interdisciplinary nature of the study ensures the work will be essential reading to cultural theorists and literary researchers alike.” (Kristian Shaw, English Studies, Vol. 97 (7), 2016)
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Alexander Beaumont is Lecturer in English Literature at York St John University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement
Book Subtitle: Freedom and the City
Authors: Alexander Beaumont
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137393722
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-39371-5Published: 05 June 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-48367-9Published: 01 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-39372-2Published: 05 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 239
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Literary History, Fiction