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Locating Classed Subjectivities explores representations of social class in British fiction through the lens of spatial theory and analysis.
List of contents
Introduction: Space and Social Class in Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-first-century British Writing
Simon Lee
1 Fevered Anxieties: Public Health, Infrastructure, and Infectious Classes in Austen, Edgeworth, and Scott
Matthew L. Reznicek
2 Spaces of Little Dorrit; or, The Global Marshalsea
Meghan Jordan
3 "For God’s sake, women, go out and play": Nomadic Space in the Work of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
Patricia E. Johnson
4 "Class Lives": Spatial Awareness and Political Consciousness in British Mining Novels of the 1930s
Nick Hubble
5 Remembering the Future: A Modernized London in Proud City and The End of the Affair
Elizabeth Floyd
6 "Low tastes": John Braine, Drinking and Class
Ben Clarke
7 Addressing Stigma: Demonized Locales in Pat Barker's Union Street
Simon Lee
8 Ghost Towns: The Haunting, Deindustrialized Spaces of Ross Raisin’s Waterline and Martin Amis’s Lionel Asbo
Nick Bentley
9 "Paths that Lead Me Back": Zadie Smith’s Northwest London
Molly Slavin
10 "Be Gone": Escaping Racialized Working-Class Space in Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr. Loverman and Girl, Woman, Other
Cornelia Photopoulos
11 "All I need is myself": Spatializing Neoliberal Class Consciousness in the Northern Millennial Novel
Chloé Ashbridge
About the author
Simon Lee is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University where he researches and teaches post-war British Literature with a particular focus on working-class writing and culture. He has published a range of scholarship on British writing, specifically authors like Alan Sillitoe, Shelagh Delaney, Colin MacInnes, Nell Dunn, and John Osborne.
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Locating Classed Subjectivities explores representations of social class in British fiction through the lens of spatial theory and analysis.
