Working-Class Writing

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Working-Class Writing and Experimentation

Chapter 3 Interwoven Histories: Working Class Literature and Theory

Chapter 4 Meaning It: Everyday Hermeneutics and the Language of Class in Literary Scholarship

Chapter 5 Kings in Disguise and ‘Pure Ellen Kellond’: Literary Social Passing in the Early Twentieth Century

Chapter 6 Democratic Art or Working-Class Literature? Virginia Woolf, the Women’s Cooperative Guild and Literary Value in the ‘Introductory Letter’

Chapter 7 The Bakhtin Circle in Caribbean London: Race, Class and Narrative Strategy

Chapter 8 “Look at the State of This Place!”: The Impact of Domestic Space on Post-war Class Consciousness

Chapter 9 Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s Helen of Four Gates: Recasting Melodrama in Novel and Cinematic Form

Chapter 10 Representation of the Working Classes of the British Colonies and/as the Subalterns in Mulk Raj Anand’s Coolie

Chapter 11 London Jewish … and Working-Class? Social Mobility and Boundary-Crossing in Simon Blumenfeld and Alexander Baron

Chapter 12 The Deindustrial Novel: Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the Working Class

Chapter 13 Working-Class Heritage Revisited in Alan Warner’s The Deadman’s Pedal

Chapter 14 Respectability, Nostalgia and Shame in Contemporary English Working-Class Fiction