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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.
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the
1990s shape Contemporary British Fiction? From the fall of the
Berlin Wall to the turn of the millennium, the 1990s witnessed a
realignment of global politics. Against the changing international
scene, this volume uses events abroad and in Britain to examine and
explain the changes taking place in British fiction: the
celebration of national identities, fuelled by the move toward
political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales; the
rise of misery memoirs and autobiographies tied to the shifting
concepts of grief and mourning; the literary optimism in urban
ethnic fictions written by a new generation of authors, born and
raised in Britain and the popularity of neo-Victorian fiction.
Critical surveys are balanced by in-depth readings of work by the
authors who defined the decade, including A.S. Byatt, Hanif
Kureishi, A.L. Kennedy, Caryl Phillips and Irvine Welsh: an
approach that illustrates exactly how their key themes and concerns
fit within the social and political circumstances of the decade.
This book argues that British proletarian literature was a
politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain.
Critical analysis and close readings of key works such as D.H.
Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Naomi Mitchison's We have Been
Warned, Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair and John Sommerfield's
May Day, are placed within a literary history stretching from early
encounters between Ford Madox Ford and D.H. Lawrence, through
Virginia Woolf's association with the Women's Co-operative Guild,
and on to the activity of Mass Observation in the late 1930s and
1940s. The study analyses the way in which modernism and
proletarian literature were related to an intersectional web of
class and gender that took on a potent political shape following
the 1926 General Strike and the Equal Franchise Act of 1928. The
1930s is revealed not as an atypical, isolated decade but as
central to the literature of the twentieth century.
This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the
contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine
and explain contemporary trends, such as the rise of a new
working-class fiction, the ongoing development of separate national
literatures of Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and shifts in modes of
attention and reading. From the aftermath of the 2008 global
financial crash to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, the 2010s have
been a decade of an ongoing crisis which has penetrated every area
of everyday life. Internationally, there has been an ongoing shift
of global power from the US to China, and events and developments
such as the election of Donald Trump as US President, the emergence
of the Black Lives Matter movement, the rise of the populist right
across Europe and very gradually the incipient effects variously of
AI. Nationally, there has been a decade of austerity economics
punctuated by divisive referendums on Scottish independence and
whether Britain should leave or remain in the EU. Balancing
critical surveys with in-depth readings of work by authors who have
helped define this turbulent decade, including Nicola Barker, Anna
Burns, Jonathan Coe, Alys Conran, Bernadine Evaristo, Mohsin Hamid,
James Kelman, James Robertson, Kamila Shamsie, Ali Smith, Zadie
Smith and Adam Thirlwell, among others, this volume illustrates
exactly how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and
political circumstances of the decade.
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the
1950s shape modern British fiction? As Britain emerged from the
shadow of war into the new decade of the 1950s, the seeds of
profound social change were being sown. Exploring the full range of
fiction in the 1950s, this volume surveys the ways in which these
changes were reflected in British culture. Chapters cover the rise
of the 'Angry Young Men', an emerging youth culture and vivid new
voices from immigrant and feminist writers. A major critical
re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as
Margery Allingham, Kingsley Amis, E. R. Braithwaite, Rodney
Garland, Martyn Goff, Attia Hosain, George Lamming, Marghanita
Laski, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, Naomi Mitchison, V. S.
Naipaul, Barbara Pym, Mary Renault, Sam Selvon, Alan Sillitoe, John
Sommerfield, Muriel Spark, J. R. R. Tolkien, Angus Wilson and John
Wyndham.
Reformulates our understanding of the relationship between
proletarian literature and modernism in Britain This book argues
that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of
modernism which culturally transformed Britain. Critical analysis
and close readings of key works such as D.H. Lawrence's Lady
Chatterley's Lover, Naomi Mitchison's We have Been Warned, Lewis
Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair and John Sommerfield's May Day, are
placed within a literary history stretching from early encounters
between Ford Madox Ford and D.H. Lawrence, through Virginia Woolf's
association with the Women's Co-operative Guild, and on to the
activity of Mass Observation in the late 1930s and 1940s. The study
analyses the way in which modernism and proletarian literature were
related to an intersectional web of class and gender that took on a
potent political shape following the 1926 General Strike and the
Equal Franchise Act of 1928. The 1930s is revealed not as an
atypical, isolated decade but as central to the literature of the
twentieth century. Key Features Relates modernism to the
intersubjective dimension of society Sets out a new perspective on
proletarian literature in Britain, releasing it from limiting
conceptions of working class authenticity or Soviet-imposed
socialist realism Shows how modernism and proletarian literature
were linked products of the (broadly) fin-de-siecle emergence of
the unconscious that fractured nineteenth-century grand narratives
Provides an historical framework for rethinking the 1930s as not an
atypical isolated decade but as central to the literature of the
twentieth century
With austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and
abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems
familiar to us today. Moving beyond the traditional focus on ‘the
Auden generation’, this book surveys the literature of the period
in all its diversity, from working class, women, queer and
postcolonial writers to popular crime and thriller novels. In this
way, the book explores the uneven processes of modernization and
cultural democratization that characterized the decade. A major
critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers
as Eric Ambler, Mulk Raj Anand, Katharine Burdekin, Agatha
Christie, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Christopher Isherwood, Storm
Jameson, Ethel Mannin, Naomi Mitchison, George Orwell, Christina
Stead, Evelyn Waugh and many others.
The combined effect of the welfare state and medical advances means
that more people now live longer lives than ever before in history.
As a consequence, the experience of ageing has been transformed.
Yet our cultural and social perceptions of ageing remain governed
by increasingly dated images and narratives. Growing Old with the
Welfare State challenges these stereotypes by bringing together
eight previously unpublished stories of ordinary British people
born between 1925 and 1945 to show contemporary ageing in a new
light. These biographical narratives, six of which were written as
part of the Mass Observation Project, reflect on and compare the
experience of living in two post-war periods of social change,
after the first and second world wars. In doing so, these stories,
along with their accompanying contextual chapters, provide a
valuable and accessible resource for social historians, and expose
both historical and contemporary views of age and ageing that
challenge modern assumptions.
The combined effect of the welfare state and medical advances means
that more people now live longer lives than ever before in history.
As a consequence, the experience of ageing has been transformed.
Yet our cultural and social perceptions of ageing remain governed
by increasingly dated images and narratives. Growing Old with the
Welfare State challenges these stereotypes by bringing together
eight previously unpublished stories of ordinary British people
born between 1925 and 1945 to show contemporary ageing in a new
light. These biographical narratives, six of which were written as
part of the Mass Observation Project, reflect on and compare the
experience of living in two post-war periods of social change,
after the first and second world wars. In doing so, these stories,
along with their accompanying contextual chapters, provide a
valuable and accessible resource for social historians, and expose
both historical and contemporary views of age and ageing that
challenge modern assumptions.
Contemporary writers such as Peter Ackroyd, J.G. Ballard, John
King, Ian McEwan, Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Zadie Smith have
been registering the changes to the social and cultural London
landscape for years. This volume brings together their vivid
representations of the capital. Uniting the readings are themes
such as relationship between the country and the city; the capacity
of satirical forms to encompass the 'real London'; spatio-temporal
transformations and emergences; the relationship between
multiculturalism and universalism; the underground as the spatial
equivalent of London's unconsciousness and the suburbs as the
frontier of the future. The volume creates a framework for new
approaches to the representation of London required by the
unprecedented social uncertainties of recent years: an invaluable
contribution to studies of contemporary writing about London.
Contemporary writers such as Peter Ackroyd, J.G. Ballard, John
King, Ian McEwan, Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Zadie Smith have
been registering the changes to the social and cultural London
landscape for years. This volume brings together their vivid
representations of the capital. Uniting the readings are themes
such as relationship between the country and the city; the capacity
of satirical forms to encompass the 'real London'; spatio-temporal
transformations and emergences; the relationship between
multiculturalism and universalism; the underground as the spatial
equivalent of London's unconsciousness and the suburbs as the
frontier of the future. The volume creates a framework for new
approaches to the representation of London required by the
unprecedented social uncertainties of recent years: an invaluable
contribution to studies of contemporary writing about London.
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the
2000s shape contemporary British Fiction? The means of publishing,
buying and reading fiction changed dramatically between 2000 and
2010. This volume explores how the socio-political and economic
turns of the decade, bookended by the beginning of a millennium and
an economic crisis, transformed the act of writing and reading.
Detailed chapters look at the writers tracing and shaping the
limits of being human through neurological fiction. Attention is
given to the reinvigoration of psychogeography as a genre, dealing
with the concerns of living in a virtual and globalized world, as
well as the effects of reading groups and literary prizes and the
reworking of fact and fiction in historical novels. This major
literary assessment of the fiction of the 2000s covers the work of
new voices such as Monica Ali, Mark Haddon, Tom McCarthy and Zadie
Smith as well as Salman Rushdie, John Banville and Ian McEwan
making it an essential contribution to reading, defining and
understanding a decade marked by anxieties.
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the
1970s shape Contemporary British Fiction? Exploring the impact of
events like the Cold War, miners' strikes and Winter of Discontent,
this volume charts the transition of British fiction from post-war
to contemporary. Chapters outline the decade's diversity of
writing, showing how the literature of Ian McEwan and Ian Sinclair
interacted with the experimental work of B.S. Johnson. Close
contextual readings of Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish and English
novels map the steady break-up of Britain. Tying the popularity of
Angela Carter and Fay Weldon to the growth of the Women's
Liberation Movement and calling attention to a new interest in
documentary modes of autobiographical writing, this volume also
examines the rising resonance of the marginal voices: the world of
1970s British Feminist fiction and postcolonial and diasporic
writers. Against a backdrop of social tensions, this major critical
reassessment of the 1970s defines, explores and better understands
the criticism and fiction of a decade marked by the sense of
endings.
As we move through the 21st century, the importance of science
fiction to the study of English Literature is becoming increasingly
apparent. The Science Fiction Handbook provides a comprehensive
guide to the genre and how to study it for students new to the
field. In particular, it provides detailed entries on major writers
in the SF field who might be encountered on university-level
English Literature courses, ranging from H.G. Wells and Philip K.
Dick, to Doris Lessing and Geoff Ryman. Other features include an
historical timeline, sections on key writers, critics and critical
terms, and case studies of both literary and critical works. In the
later sections of the book, the changing nature of the science
fiction canon and its growing role in relation to the wider
categories of English Literature are discussed in depth introducing
the reader to the latest critical thinking on the field.
As we move through the 21st century, the importance of science
fiction to the study of English Literature is becoming increasingly
apparent. The Science Fiction Handbook provides a comprehensive
guide to the genre and how to study it for students new to the
field. In particular, it provides detailed entries on major writers
in the SF field who might be encountered on university-level
English Literature courses, ranging from H.G. Wells and Philip K.
Dick, to Doris Lessing and Geoff Ryman. Other features include an
historical timeline, sections on key writers, critics and critical
terms, and case studies of both literary and critical works. In the
later sections of the book, the changing nature of the science
fiction canon and its growing role in relation to the wider
categories of English Literature are discussed in depth introducing
the reader to the latest critical thinking on the field.
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the
1990s shape contemporary British Fiction? From the fall of the
Berlin Wall to the turn of the millennium, the 1990s witnessed a
realignment of global politics. Against the changing international
scene, this volume uses events abroad and in Britain to examine and
explain the changes taking place in British fiction, including: the
celebration of national identities, fuelled by the move toward
political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales; the
literary optimism in urban ethnic fictions written by a new
generation of authors, born and raised in Britain; the popularity
of neo-Victorian fiction. Critical surveys are balanced by in-depth
readings of work by the authors who defined the decade, including
A.S. Byatt, Hanif Kureishi, Will Self, Caryl Phillips and Irvine
Welsh: an approach that illustrates exactly how their key themes
and concerns fit within the social and political circumstances of
the decade.
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the
2000s shape contemporary British fiction? The means of publishing,
buying and reading fiction changed dramatically between 2000 and
2010. This volume explores how the socio-political and economic
turns of the decade, bookended by the beginning of a millennium and
an economic crisis, transformed the act of writing and reading.
Through consideration of, among other things, the treatment of
neuroscience, violence, the historical and youth subcultures in
recent fiction, the essays in this collection explore the complex
and still powerful relation between the novel and the world in
which it is written, published and read. This major literary
assessment of the fiction of the 2000s covers the work of newer
voices such as Monica Ali, Mark Haddon, Tom McCarthy, David Peace
and Zadie Smith as well as those more established, such as Salman
Rushdie, Hilary Mantel and Ian McEwan making it an essential
contribution to reading, defining and understanding the decade.
Moving beyond a survey approach, this collection explores British
fiction's place among the cultural shifts and headline events of
four distinctive decades. From the collapse of communism, through
the rise of Thatcher to the shifts in global power, each volume
evaluates the impact of social, cultural and political history on
the fiction of the respective period. Breaking British fiction into
its four constituent decades, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s and
the 2000s and using social, cultural and political contexts to
understand its chronology means changing literary themes are
properly accounted for and traditional readings opened up.
Alongside the national reception, the series looks closely at how
British fiction has been received internationally. Approaching the
subject from the perspective of its disciplinary formation, The
Decades Series is a crucial reference point for the progressive
development of contemporary British fiction, not only a literary
and cultural phenomenon, but as an academic field.
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