Literature and Institutions of Welfare

Perspectives on the ways in which welfarist ideology has underpinned the teaching, reading and production of literature from the 1930s to the present.

List of contents

Introduction - Jess Cotton
1. Reading and Reality - Josie Billington
2. Instruments of Imagined Power: New York's Living Newspaper Unit and the Theatre of Welfare - Matthew Holman
3. Affective Publishing Histories: Virago, the Women's Movement and the Welfare State, 1975-1990 - Helen Charman
4. Consent or Dissent? Poetry and the British Welfare State - Gareth Farmer
5. How To Be a Marxist Thief: How Raymond Williams Read T. S. Eliot - Beci Carver
6. The Ethics of Attention in Christine Brooke-Rose's Out - Sarah Bernstein
7. Dreaming of Welfare: Doris Lessing, the Good Neighbour and the Sociological Imagination - Jess Cotton
8. Welfare Fictions and the Brixton Uprising: Beryl Gilroy's Black Teacher and Caryl Phillips's The Final Passage - Lara Choksey
9. The Disciplines of English and the Ideals of Welfare in Ireland in the 1980s - Neil Vickers
Index

About the author

Edited by Jess Cotton

Summary

Perspectives on the ways in which welfarist ideology has underpinned the teaching, reading and production of literature from the 1930s to the present.

Product details

• Assisted by: Dr Jess Cotton (Editor), Jess Cotton (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2024
• EAN: 9781843847311
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-731-1
• No. of pages: 206
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 217 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 412 g
• Series: Essays and Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies