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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.
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.
Awarded 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention in Media & Cultural
Studies With the resurgent interest in his work today, this is a
timely reevaluation of this foundational figure in Cultural
Studies, a critical but friendly review of both Hoggart's work and
reputation. * Re-examines the reputation of one of the inventors of
Cultural Studies * Uses new archival sources to critically evaluate
Hoggart's contribution and influence, set his work in context, and
determine its current relevance * Addresses detractors and their
positions of Hoggart, delineating long-term ideological battles
within academia * Brings cultural studies, literary criticism, and
social history to bear on this figure whose interests spread across
disciplines, to create a text which blends many threads into a
coherent whole
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