Evading Class in Contemporary British Literature

Chapter 1 Introduction: Questions of Class in the Contemporary British Novel

Chapter 2 “Unworkable Subjects”: Middle-Class Narratives in Pat Barker, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro

Chapter 3 “Our Economic Position”: Middle-Class Consciousness in Zadie Smith and Will Self

Chapter 4 Classless Fictions?: Middle-Class History/Working-Class Subjects in Martin Amis, Peter Ackroyd, and Hanif Kureishi

Chapter 5 We’re All Bourgeois Now: Realism and Class in Alan Hollinghurst, Graham Swift, and Jonathan Coe

Chapter 6 A Class Act: Representations of Class in British Cinema and Television 1979–2008