Locating Classed Subjectivities explores representations of social
class in British fiction through the lens of spatial theory and
analysis. By analyzing a range of class-conscious texts from the
nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first centuries, the collection
provides an overview of the way British writers mobilized spatial
aesthetics as a means to comment on the intricacies of social class.
In doing so, the collection delineates aesthetic strategies of
representation in British writing, tracing the development of literary
forms while considering how authors mobilized innovative spatial
metaphors to better express contingent social and economic realities.
Ranging in coverage from early-nineteenth-century narratives of
disease to contemporary writing on the working-class millennial,
Locating Classed Subjectivities offers new perspectives on literary
techniques and political intentions, exploring the way class is parsed
and critiqued through British writing across three centuries. As such,
the project responds to Nigel Thrift and Peter Williams’s claim that
literary and cultural production serves as a particularly rich yet
unexamined access point by which to comprehend the way space and
social class intersect.
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Intersections of Space and Working-Class Life in Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-First-Century British Writing
Product details
ISBN
9781000582796
Published
2022
Edition
1. edition
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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