Evading class in contemporary British literature

Evading class in contemporary British literature / Lawrence Driscoll.

Author/creator	Driscoll, Lawrence Victor
Format	Electronic and Book
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
Description	243 p. ; 22 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Springer Books
Subject(s)	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.

Contents	Introduction : questions of class in the contemporary British novel -- "Unworkable subjects" : middle-class narratives in Pat Barker, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro -- "Our economic position" : middle-class consciousness in Zadie Smith and Will Self -- Classless fictions? : middle-class history/working-class subjects in Martin Amis, Peter Ackroyd, and Hanif Kureishi -- We're all bourgeois now : realism and class in Alan Hollinghurst, Graham Swift, and Jonathan Coe -- A class act : representations of class in British cinema and television 1979-2008.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-239) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2008043014
ISBN	0230615279 (alk. paper)
ISBN	9780230615274 (alk. paper)

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