The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing: Kitchen Sink Aesthetics

ISBN-13: 9781350193093 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 272 str.

Simon Lee

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Acknowledgments Introduction 1 “Look at the State of this Place!”—The Impact of Domestic Space on Post-WWII Class Consciousness Post-WWII Housing and Classed Space Theorizing Domestic Space and Class Identity Domestic Anxiety in Look Back in Anger Renegotiations of Identity in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Queering the Domestic in A Taste of Honey 2 “Off Down the Local”—Institutional Borders in Working-Class Communities Shared Space and Working-Class Institutions Collective Consciousness and Shared Experience Shared Space and Identity Formation in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Class Migration and Social Stasis in This Sporting Life Contours of Class and Mobility in Up the Junction 3 Spatial Transgression and The Working-Class Imaginary Theorizing Spatial Transgression: From the Production of Space to the Non-Space Transgressive Space and Post-WWII Potentiality Spatial Transgression and the Working-Class Imaginary in Up the Junction Subterranean Space and Diasporic Demimondes in City of Spades Differential Space and Inversion in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 4 Against Class Fetishism: The Legacy of Kitchen Sink Realism A Genealogy of the Realist Mode: Form Versus Function Critical Approaches to Kitchen Sink Aesthetics Multimedia Motifs and Kitchen Sink Thematics Commodified “Kitsch-en” Sinks in Coronation Street Channel 4 and Coordinated Class Effects Theaters of Anger and Aggression Class and Space in Contemporary Fiction Conclusion Bibliography Index