Evading class in contemporary British literature
By: Lawrence Driscoll.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Social classes in literature; English literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Working class in literature; Postmodernism (Literature); Social classes -- England -- History -- 20th century; Social classes -- England -- History -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : questions of class in the contemporary British novel; title: "Unworkable subjects": middle-class narratives in Pat Barker, Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro; title: "Our economic position": middle-class consciousness in Zadie Smith and Will Self; title: Classless fictions : middle-class history/working-class subjects in Martin Amis, Peter Ackroyd, and Hanif Kureishi; title: We're all bourgeois now : realism and class in Alan Hollinghurst, Graham Swift and Jonathan Coe; title: A class act : representations of class in British cinema and television 1979-2008.