Research Catalog

Title

Home in British working-class fiction / Nicola Wilson, University of Reading, UK.

Author

Wilson, Nicola, 1980-

Publication

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT USA : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2015.

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Details

Description

xii, 240 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Home in British Working-Class Fiction offers a fresh take on British working-class writing that turns away from a masculinist, work-based understanding of class in favour of home, gender, domestic labour and the family kitchen. As Nicola Wilson shows, the history of the British working classes has often been written from the outside, with observers looking into the world of the inhabitants. Here Wilson engages with the long cultural history of this gaze and asks how 'home' is represented in the writing of authors who come from a working-class background. Her book explores the depiction of home as a key emotional and material site in working-class writing from the Edwardian period through to the early 1990s...Wilson's broad understanding of working-class writing allows her to incorporate figures typically ignored in this context, as she demonstrates the importance of home's role in the making and expression of class feeling and identity." -- Back cover.

Subject

• 1800-1999
• English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
• Working class in literature
• Home in literature
• Women in literature
• Social values in literature
• Working class writings, English > History and criticism
• Working class authors > England
• Working class > England > History
• Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• English fiction
• Literature and society
• Working class
• Working class authors
• Working class writings, English
• England
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

• History.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-218) and index.

Contents

Writing home and class -- The forefathers of the working-class novel -- Working women and the little house -- Home on the dole in the hungry thirties -- Anger, affluence and domesticity -- The uprooted and the anxious -- Estates and the new slum life -- Afterword.

Call Number

JFE 16-8581

ISBN

• 9781409432418
• 1409432416
• 1409432424
• 9781409432425
• 1472405692
• 9781472405692

LCCN

• 2014039651
• 40025045340

OCLC

894128480

Author

Wilson, Nicola, 1980- author.

Title

Home in British working-class fiction / Nicola Wilson, University of Reading, UK.

Publisher

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT USA : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-218) and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1999

Other Form:

Ebook version 9781472405692

Other Standard Identifier

40025045340

Research Call Number

JFE 16-8581