Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2009
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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(IX, 243 pages :)
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This trenchant book argues that the cultural attempt to erase class during the period from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair has only generated its return as a troubling subterranean element in British literature and theory.