Titlebook: Clever Girls and the Literature of Women‘s Upward Mobility; Mary Eagleton Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 G

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Dyspnea in patients with asthmars the literature in the context of Lauren Berlant’s work on ‘the good life’ and sees ‘the have-nots’ as awkwardly positioned between ‘cruel optimism’ and ‘depressive realism’. What they work towards, perhaps, is a tentative hopefulness.

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Escaping Origins,ilies; how they struggle both to understand and to enact the processes of social mobility; and how their habitus is challenged. Though the fiction gestures towards some resolution with origins, the new social position is hard won and any slippage back has to be guarded against.

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Troublesome Bodies,st at the historical moment when, as Lauren Berlant describes, they are about to become examples of ‘the case’. The apparent ‘opportunity’ of social mobility is worked out on the body which is either desired and controlled or despised and repelled.

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,‘The Haves’ and ‘The Have-Nots’,rs the literature in the context of Lauren Berlant’s work on ‘the good life’ and sees ‘the have-nots’ as awkwardly positioned between ‘cruel optimism’ and ‘depressive realism’. What they work towards, perhaps, is a tentative hopefulness.

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t.Engages with significant authors, both well-established an.This book follows the figure of ‘the clever girl’ from the post-war to the present and focuses on the fiction, plays and memoirs of contemporary British women writers. Spurred on by an ethic of meritocracy, the clever girl is now facing au

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Book 2018ish women writers. Spurred on by an ethic of meritocracy, the clever girl is now facing austerity and declining social mobility. Though suggesting optimism, a public discourse of ‘opportunity’, ‘aspiration’ and ‘choice’ is often experienced as an anxious and chancy process. In a wide-ranging study,