Overview
- 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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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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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theories
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Practices
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Working-Class Writing
Book Subtitle: Theory and Practice
Editors: Ben Clarke, Nick Hubble
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96310-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96309-9Published: 29 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40462-8Published: 18 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96310-5Published: 19 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 298
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory