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" Evading Class in Contemporary British Literature "
by Lawrence Driscoll.
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BL
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727456
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b547189
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by Lawrence Driscoll.
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Evading Class in Contemporary British Literature\ by Lawrence Driscoll.
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New York: Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
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(IX, 243 pages :)
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0230622488
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: 1282532723
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: 1349379034
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: 9780230622487
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: 9781282532724
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: 9781349379033
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| Contents
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Introduction: Questions of Class in the Contemporary British Novel * "Unworkable Subjects": Middle-Class Narratives in Pat Barker, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro * "Our Economic Position": Middle-Class Consciousness in Zadie Smith and Will Self * Classless Fictions?: Middle-Class History/Working-Class Subjects in Martin Amis, Peter Ackroyd, and Hanif Kureishi * We're all Bourgeois Now: Realism and Class in Alan Hollinghurst, Graham Swift, and Jonathan Coe * A Class Act: Representations of Class in British Cinema and Television
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This trenchant book argues that the cultural attempt to erase class during the period from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair has only generated its return as a troubling subterranean element in British literature and theory.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century.
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Literature.
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PR888.S6B953 2009
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Lawrence Driscoll
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