Titlebook: Working-Class Writing; Theory and Practice Ben Clarke,Nick Hubble Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 Industrial

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Democratic Art or Working-Class Literature? Virginia Woolf, the Women’s Cooperative Guild and Literaard Woolf’s involvement with the Cooperative Society to explore social class, education and writing. Where Melba Cuddy-Keane (2003) argues that Woolf’s preface offers a ‘hopeful’, future ‘combinatory vision’ of cross-class literary discourse, this chapter focuses on the transitional present. Conside

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The Bakhtin Circle in Caribbean London: Race, Class and Narrative Strategyir articulation in the postwar Caribbean migrant experience. In this respect, an analysis of their narrative strategies serves as useful indicator for authorial attitudes towards contemporary black working-class politico-cultural tendencies. Applying concepts originating with Mikhail Bakhtin and Val

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“Look at the State of This Place!”: The Impact of Domestic Space on Post-war Class Consciousnessilt environment shaped identity. It shows how texts from the period amplified portrayals of classed space to underscore spatial limits, necessitating a disarticulation of monolithic class identity as the result. It argues that the movement’s narratives encourage modifications of class consciousness

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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s ,: Recasting Melodrama in Novel and Cinematic Formry and, in particular, how her journalistic work enabled her to develop theories including a conception of emotional sensibility as a key component of both class and poetic consciousness. Analysis of . shows how it distils these theories within a melodramatic framework that aligns romance convention

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Representation of the Working Classes of the British Colonies and/as the Subalterns in Mulk Raj Anane British working class during the late colonial period. The colonial, racial and imperial relationship between the Empire and its colony is shown to have influenced the nature and scope of working-class literature. In analyzing how, despite being assigned the nomenclature of the ‘native-informant’,

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The Deindustrial Novel: Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the Working Classnge. It gives critical readings of Anthony Cartwright’s . (2004), . (2007) by Catherine O’Flynn, and Edward Hogan’s . (2008). All three are concerned with the particularities of place and space and the geography of a local setting which is also symbolic of a wider and pervasive class experience of c

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Respectability, Nostalgia and Shame in Contemporary English Working-Class Fiction of living beyond the constraints of working-class culture, such as a need for respectability and nostalgia for tradition that mitigates against social change. Analysis of Pat Barker’s . (1982), Gordon Burn’s . (2003) and Zadie Smith’s . (2012) investigates gendered responses to the ongoing disinteg

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