This companion provides an overview of the history, theory, and analysis of working-class literature. Taking a global and intersectional approach, it demonstrates that literature is central to the (re)interpretation of the working class, a process that involves rereading the past as well as mapping the present.
The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature provides an overview of the history, theory, and analysis of working-class literature. Taking a global and intersectional approach, the Companion demonstrates that literature is central to the (re)interpretation of the working class, a process that involves rereading the past as well as mapping the present.
The collection examines how working-class literature is defined and the functions the term serves. It maps current debates and traces the ways in which a wide variety of theoretical and political movements have shaped the field. Challenging the stereotypical view that working-class writing is concerned solely with white, male industrial labourers in the Global North, the volume features chapters on subjects from early modern writing about the poor in England to contemporary poetry by Asian migrant workers. Exploring the theoretical problems of writing about class as well as providing detailed readings of specific texts, it demonstrates the richness and diversity of this rapidly developing field and looks to the future of working-class literature.
The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature is an accessible, wide-ranging resource. It emphasizes difference and debate, bringing distinct texts, traditions, and critical perspectives into dialogue and is essential for any student or researcher looking at concepts of class within literary studies.
Introduction: What is Working-Class Literature?
Part I. Theorizing Working-Class Literature
Chapter
1. Working-class literature(s)
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2. Revolutionary Tendencies: Theories of Working-Class Writing
Chapter
3. Writing a Class to Come: Social Fiction, Heterogeneity, and the
Political
Chapter
4. Seeing Anew: Making Working-Class Literature Visible Through a
Working-Class Intersectional Gaze
Chapter
5. Struggle as Class Motif: Difficulty in Douglas Stuarts Shuggie
Bain
Part II. Literature and the Making of the Working Class
Chapter
6. Literature and the Labouring Poor in Early Modern England
Chapter
7. The Rhyme of the Ancient Labourer: working-class poets and the
classics
Chapter
8. The Invisibility of Working-Class Self-Representation in Literary
Classrooms, with a Focus on the Romantic-Period
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9. Working-Class Writing in Victorian Britain, 1837-1901
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10. Working-Class British Women Writers, 1840-1914: Resistance and
Community
Chapter
11. One Hundred Years of Defining (German) Working-Class Literature
Part III. Working-Class Literature in the Age of Extremes
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12. D. H. Lawrence, Class and Culture
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13. Work, Sex, and Women in D.H. Lawrences Fiction: Intersections of
Class and Gender
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14. Clamouring for Revolutionary Literature: Working-Class Writing
in the Caribbean
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15. Coalitional Politics for Exiles and Nationalists: H. T. Tsiangs
And China Has Hands
Chapter
16. Broken Hands: Class and Disability in 20th-Century American
Poetry
Part IV. Neoliberalism and the Future of Working-Class Literature
Chapter
17. Dramatic Representations of Them and Us Class Struggle in
Neoliberal Britain
Chapter
18. Music and hope in Irish working-class recession writing: Roddy
Doyles The Commitments and Emmet Kirwans Dublin Oldschool
Chapter
19. Representations of Class and Race in East African Asian
Literatures
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20. Beyond Human Futures in Indra Sinhas Animals People
Chapter
21. The Labor of Migrant Subjectivity
Chapter
22. Migrant Workers in Asia Today: A Brief Introduction.
Chapter
23. Working-Class Representation in Cinema and Literature in the
Digital Age
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24. Common People: Breaking the Glass Ceiling in UK Publishing
Chapter
25. An Alternative History of Working-Class Theatre
Chapter
26. Keeping Class Visible in Recession-Era Irish Poetry
Chapter
27. Proletarian Futures: Some Representations of the Working Class in
Science Fiction
Index
Ben Clarke is Associate Professor of Post-1900 British Literature at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA. His publications include Orwell in Context: Communities, Myths, Values (2007), Understanding Richard Hoggart: A Pedagogy of Hope (with Michael Bailey and John K. Walton, 2012), and Working-Class Writing: Theory and Practice (co-edited with Nick Hubble, 2018).
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