Landscape and Labour - Work, Place, and the Working Class in Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence

Informationen zum Autor Brian Elliott is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at Portland State University, USA. He has published seven books, most recently The Roots of Populism (2021) and Landscape and Labour: Work, Place, and the Working Class in Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence (2021). His work is situated at the intersection of social, political, and aesthetic theory. Klappentext In the novels of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and D. H. Lawrence a miniature history of the English working class can be found. They transformed working-class culture from a patronizing pastiche into a vital reality. Landscape and Labour offers a sense of direction for contemporary politics by rediscovering the vital force of working-class culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The political economy of work and place (5,000 words) Chapter 1: George Eliot: The English working class finds its voice (15,000 words) Chapter 2: Thomas Hardy: Situating working-class politics (15,000 words) Chapter 3: D.H. Lawrence: A future politics of work (15,000 words) Chapter 4: New land, new labour (15,000 words) Conclusion: Neoliberalism and a new working-class politics (5,000 words)

About the author

Brian Elliott is assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Elliott
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781538158562
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5856-2
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, Politics & government, Politics and government, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers