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

"Twentieth-Century Writing and the British Working Class" challenges suggestions that class is no longer relevant for literary analysis. It examines how the lives and experiences of working-class people have changed over the past century, and how these changes have been depicted and explored in a range of fictional and non-fictional texts and films. The author covers a range of writing from Alan Bleasdale, James Kelman to Jeanette Winterson and Pat Barker. He also covers iconic films which have found huge success in the United States as well as Britain such as "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", "Brassed Off", "The Full Monty" and "Billy Elliot", as well as hugely popular TV series such as "The Boys From the Blackstuff".

ISBN	0708321909	DEWEY edition	DC22
ISBN13	9780708321904 (What's this?)	Pages	224
Publisher	University of Wales Press	Volumes	1
Imprint	UNIV OF WALES PR	Weight (grammes)	272
Format	Paperback	Published in	Wales
Publication date	01 Apr 2009	Height (mm)	213
Library of Congress	PN1995.9	Width (mm)	137
DEWEY	820.935	Academic level	Undergraduate

	Introduction	1
1	'Unbending the springs of action': from poverty to affluence in the narrating of class	32
2	Class, community and 'structures of feeling': a 'sense of loss' revisited in some working-class writing from the 1980s	78
3	Figuring the dispossessed: the negative topographies of class	103
4	Recovered perspectives: women and working-class writing	135
5	Mapping difference and identity: race, class and the politics of belonging	161
	Conclusion	190
	Notes	194
	Bibliography	207
	Index	217

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