Home in British Working-Class Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780367346546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 252 str.

Nicola Wilson

Opis

Examining key works by Robert Tressell, Alan Sillitoe, D.H. Lawrence, Buchi Emecheta, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson and James Kelman, among many others, Nicola Wilson demonstrates the importance of home's role in the making and expression of class feeling and identity.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Writing Home and Class; Chapter 2 The Forefathers of the Working-Class Novel; Chapter 3 Working Women and the Little House; Chapter 4 Home on the Dole in the Hungry Thirties; Chapter 5 Anger, Affluence and Domesticity; Chapter 6 The Uprooted and the Anxious; Chapter 7 Estates and the New Slum Life; Chapter 101 Afterword;

O autorze

Nicola Wilson is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Reading, UK.