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Author / Creator:	Wilson, Nicola, 1980- author.
Imprint:	Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT USA : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2015.
Description:	xii, 240 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	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. Home in literature. Literature and society. Social values in literature. Women in literature. Working class. Working class authors. Working class in literature. Working class writings, English. England. Great Britain. History. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10541414

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ISBN:	9781409432418 1409432416 9781409432425 9781472405692 1409432424 9781409432425 1472405692 9781472405692
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-218) and index.
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.
Other form:	Ebook version 9781472405692
Standard no.:	40025045340

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
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
Bibliography
Index