Landscape and Labour (eBook)

Work, Place, and the Working Class in Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence

Brian Elliott (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
168 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-78660-911-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In the novels of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and D.H. Lawrence a miniature history of the English working class can be found. Through their sympathetic portrayals, these authors transformed working-class culture from a patronizing pastiche into a vital reality. This achievement was crucial to the rise of the English working-class as the key agency of democratic reform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. In our own times, by contrast, depictions of working-class culture are patronizing at best, if not openly denigrating. This crisis of representation has born recent fruit in the phenomenon of populism, a long-term consequence of the undermining of genuinely popular rule under neoliberal capitalism. Returning to the works of Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence in this book the author offers a sense of direction for contemporary politics, by rediscovering the vital force of working-class culture.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.8.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Cultural Studies • Landscape Studies • Literary Studies • Neoliberalism • Political Economy • political theory • Working Class Culture
• ISBN-10: 1-78660-911-8 / 1786609118
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78660-911-3 / 9781786609113