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The British Working Class in the Twentieth Century John Kirk

The British Working Class in the Twentieth Century By John Kirk

The British Working Class in the Twentieth Century by John Kirk

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Summary

An examination of representations of the British working class in 20th-century literature and film. John Kirk reasserts the importance of class as a category of critical analysis through a wide-ranging discussion of the changing nature, status and ideological concerns of working-class writing.

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The British Working Class in the Twentieth Century: Film, Literature and Television by John Kirk

Challenges the suggestions that class is no longer relevant for literary analysis. This work examines how the lives and experiences of working-class people have changed, and how these changes have been depicted and explored in a range of fictional and non-fictional texts and films.

The British Working Class in the Twentieth Century Reviews

'The University of Wales Press is to be complimented on publishing a work from which provides so many insights for the field of Welsh cultural studies.' www.gwales.com

About John Kirk

Dr John Anthony Kirk was an American historian, journalist, educator and bibliographer.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Some Theoretical Perspectives I Contrary Voices: Images of the British Working Class from the 1930s and 1950s II Class, Community and 'Structures of Feeling' III Figuring the Dispossessed: Images of the Urban Working Class in the Writing of James Kelman IV Recovered Perspectives: Feminism and the Working Class V Recent Northern Realism: Return of the Repressed VI Black/Asian British Writing and Articulations of Class

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The British Working Class in the Twentieth Century: Film, Literature and Television by John Kirk
John Kirk
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University of Wales Press
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