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British Working-Class Writing for Children : Scholarship Boys in the Mid-Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 3319553909 3319553895 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book explores how working-class writers in the 1960s and 1970s significantly reshaped British children’s literature through their representations of working-class life and culture. Aidan Chambers, Alan Garner and Robert Westall were examples of what Richard Hoggart termed ‘scholarship boys’: working-class individuals who were educated out of their class through grammar school education. This book highlights the role these writers played in changing the publishing and reviewing practices of the British children's literature industry while offering new readings of their novels featuring scholarship boys. As well as drawing on the work of Raymond Williams and Pierre Bourdieu, and referring to studies of scholarship boys in the fields of social science and education, this book explores personal interviews and archival materials. Yielding significant insights on British children’s literature of the period, this book will be of particular interest to scholars and students in the fields of children’s and working-class literature and of British popular culture.


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Useful toil : autobiographies of working people from the 1820s to the 1920s
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ISBN: 0713906839 0713906820 Year: 1974 Publisher: London : Allen Lane,


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Working-Class Writing : Theory and Practice
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ISBN: 3319963104 3319963090 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book updates our understanding of working-class fiction by focusing on its continued relevance to the social and intellectual contexts of the age of Trump and Brexit. The volume draws together new and established scholars in the field, whose intersectional analyses use postcolonial and feminist ideas, amongst others, to explore key theoretical approaches to working-class writing and discuss works by a range of authors, including Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, Jack Hilton, Mulk Raj Anand, Simon Blumenfeld, Pat Barker, Gordon Burn, and Zadie Smith. A key informing argument is not only that working-class writing shows ‘working class’ to be a diverse and dynamic rather than monolithic category, but also that a greater critical attention to class, and the working class in particular, extends both the methods and objects of literary studies. This collection will appeal to students, scholars and academics interested in working-class writing and the need to diversify the curriculum.

Proletarian imagination
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ISBN: 1501717790 9781501717796 080144005X 9780801440052 0801488265 9780801488269 Year: 2002 Publisher: Ithaca

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In fin-de-siècle and early revolutionary Russia, a group of self-educated workers produced a large body of poetry and prose in which they attempted to comprehend their rapidly changing world. Witnesses to wars and revolution, these men and women grappled on paper with the nature of civilization and the imperatives of ethical truth. In a strikingly original approach to Russian culture, Mark D. Steinberg listens to their words, which are little known today. The results of their literary creativity, he finds, were frequently not what the new Soviet order was expecting from its workers, despite its celebration of the notion of a proletarian art.Through insightful readings of a vast fund of lower-class writings, Steinberg shows that the authors focused above all on the uncertain nature and place of the self, the promise and dangers of modernity, and the qualities of the sacred in both their lives and their imaginations. Like their counterparts in the intelligentsia, these worker writers were ambivalent about Marxist ideology's celebration of the city and the factory and even about modern progress itself. Drawing on vast research, Steinberg demonstrates the texts' significance for an understanding of Russian popular mentalities, indeed for the very meaning, philosophically and morally, of these years of crisis and possibility at the end of the old order and the early years of the Soviet regime.


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British working-class fiction : narratives of refusal and the struggle against work
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ISBN: 1474273777 1474273769 9781474273763 9781474273749 9781474273770 1474273742 9781474273749 9781474273756 1474273750 1350044598 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Bloomsbury,

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"British Fiction and the Struggle Against Work offers an account of British literary responses to work from the 1950s to the onset of the financial crisis of 2008/9. Roberto del Valle Alcalá argues that throughout this period, working-class writing developed new strategies of resistance against the social discipline imposed by capitalist work. As the latter becomes an increasingly pervasive and inescapable form of control and as its nature grows abstract, diffuse, and precarious, writing about it acquires a new antagonistic quality, producing new forms of subjective autonomy and new imaginaries of a possible life beyond its purview. By tracing a genealogy of working-class authors and texts that in various ways defined themselves against the social discipline imposed by post-war capitalism, this book analyses the strategies adopted by workers in their attempts to identify and combat the source of their oppression. Drawing on the work of a wide range of theorists including Deleuze and Guattari, Giorgio Agamben and Antonio Negri, Alcalá offers a systematic and innovative account of British literary treatments of work. The book includes close readings of fiction by Alan Sillitoe, David Storey, Nell Dunn, Pat Barker, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, Monica Ali, and Joanna Kavenna."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


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Class and the making of American literature : created unequal
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ISBN: 9780415822060 0415822068 9780203556023 9781136774249 9781136774317 9781136774386 9781138547452 Year: 2014 Volume: 24 Publisher: New York London Routledge

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"This book refocuses current understandings of American Literature from the revolutionary period to the present-day through an analytical accounting of class, reestablishing a foundation for discussions of class in American culture. American Studies scholars have explored the ways in which American society operates through inequality and modes of social control, focusing primarily on issues of status group identities involving race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and disability. The essays in this volume focus on both the historically changing experience of class and its continuing hold on American life. The collection visits popular as well as canonical literature, recognizing that class is constructed in and mediated by the affective and the sensational. It analyzes class division, class difference, and class identity in American culture, enabling readers to grasp why class matters, as well as the economic, social, and political matter of class. Redefining the field of American literary cultural studies and asking it to rethink its preoccupation with race and gender as primary determinants of identity, contributors explore the disciplining of the laboring body and of the emotions, the political role of the novel in contesting the limits of class power and authority, and the role of the modern consumer culture in both blurring and sharpening class divisions"--

Better red
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ISBN: 1280523727 1423736400 0195363450 1601297238 0195056957 9780195056952 9781423736400 9781280523724 9786610523726 661052372X 0197723241 Year: 1995 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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This study contributes to efforts to promote working-class writing as a legitimate category of literary analysis. It demonstrates how the writing of Olsen and le Sueur anticipated many of the concerns of "second wave" feminists, and how their feminist ideals related to the American Communist Left.


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Dictionnaire des auteurs prolétariens de langue française: de la Révolution à nos jours
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ISBN: 2906389544 9782906389540 Year: 1994 Volume: 1 Publisher: Amiens: Encrage,

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French language --- Sociology of literature --- French literature --- French literature (outside France) --- Working class --- Working class writings, French --- Authors, French --- Travailleurs --- Ecrits d'ouvriers français --- Ecrivains français --- Biography --- Dictionaries --- French --- Bio-bibliography --- Biographie --- Dictionnaires français --- Biobibliographie --- Working class authors --- Working class in literature --- 840 <03> --- -Working class --- -Working class writings, French --- -Working class authors --- -Working class in literature --- -Labor and laboring classes in literature --- Authors, Laboring class --- Authors, Proletarian --- Authors, Working class --- Proletarian authors --- Authors --- French working class writings --- Laboring class writings, French --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- French authors --- Franse literatuur--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- -Dictionaries --- Employment --- Dictionaries. --- -Franse literatuur--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- 840 <03> Franse literatuur--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- Ecrits d'ouvriers français --- Ecrivains français --- Dictionnaires français --- Labor and laboring classes in literature --- Biography&delete& --- Bio-bibliography&delete& --- Working class writings, French - Bio-bibliography - Dictionaries --- Working class authors - France - Biography - Dictionaries --- Working class - France - Biography - Dictionaries --- Authors, French - Biography - Dictionaries --- Working class in literature - Dictionaries

Histoire de la littérature prolétarienne de langue française : littérature ouvrière, littérature paysanne, littérature d'expression populaire
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ISBN: 2226001115 9782226001115 Year: 1986 Publisher: Paris Albin Michel

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840-91 --- French literature --- -Peasantry in literature --- Popular literature --- -Working class in literature --- Labor and laboring classes in literature --- Literature, Popular --- Books and reading --- Popular culture --- Peasantry in literature --- Franse literatuur: populaire literatuur volksboek --- History and criticism --- 840-91 Franse literatuur: populaire literatuur volksboek --- Authors, Laboring class --- Ecrivains ouvriers --- Working class writings, French --- Peasants in literature --- 329.14:840 --- -Peasants in literature --- French working class writings --- Laboring class writings, French --- Socialistische partijen-:-Franse literatuur --- Peasants in literature. --- Working class in literature. --- 329.14:840 Socialistische partijen-:-Franse literatuur --- -French literature --- 840 --- 840 Franse literatuur --- Franse literatuur --- Working class in literature --- 840-91 Franse literatuur: populaire literatuur; volksboek --- Franse literatuur: populaire literatuur; volksboek --- Working class authors --- Littérature française --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism. --- Franse volksletterkunde. Geschiedenis. --- Travailleurs / dans la littérature française. --- Littérature populaire française. Histoire. --- Arbeiders / in de Franse letterkunde. --- 840 French literature. Literature in French --- French literature. Literature in French --- Working class writings, French - History and criticism --- Popular literature - France - History and criticism --- French literature - History and criticism

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