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Landscape and Labour
Work, Place, and the Working Class in Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence
Landscape and Labour
Work, Place, and the Working Class in Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence
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In the novels of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and D.H. Lawrence a miniature history of the English working class can be found. Through their sympathetic portrayals, these authors transformed working-class culture from a patronizing pastiche into a vital reality. This achievement was crucial to the rise of the English working-class as the key agency of democratic reform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. In our own times, by contrast, depictions of working-class culture are patronizing at best, if not openly denigrating. This crisis of representation has born recent fruit in the phenomenon of populism, a long-term consequence of the undermining of genuinely popular rule under neoliberal capitalism. Returning to the works of Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence allows us to regain a sense of direction for contemporary politics, by rediscovering the vital force of working-class culture.
Table of Contents
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)
Product details
| Published | Feb 02 2023 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 168 |
| ISBN | 9781538158562 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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