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