Landscape and Labour - Work, Place, and the Working Class in Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence (Hardcover)

In the novels of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and D.H. Lawrence a miniature history of the English working class can be found. Through their sympathetic portrayals, these authors transformed working-class culture from a patronizing pastiche into a vital reality. This achievement was crucial to the rise of the English working-class as the key agency of democratic reform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. In our own times, by contrast, depictions of working-class culture are patronizing at best, if not openly denigrating. This crisis of representation has born recent fruit in the phenomenon of populism, a long-term consequence of the undermining of genuinely popular rule under neoliberal capitalism. Returning to the works of Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence allows us to regain a sense of direction for contemporary politics, by rediscovering the vital force of working-class culture.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2021
Authors:	Brian Elliott
Dimensions:	229 x 161 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-1-78660-910-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General
LSN:	1-78660-910-X
Barcode:	9781786609106

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