Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing

Simon Lee is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University, USA where he researches and teaches Post-WWII British literature, social class and labour history. He has published on writers such as Colin MacInnes, Shelagh Delaney, John Osborne and Pat Barker, and on topics such as immigration, nationalism and cultural identity.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 “Look at the State of this Place!”—The Impact of Domestic Space on Post-WWII Class ConsciousnessPost-WWII Housing and Classed SpaceTheorizing Domestic Space and Class IdentityDomestic Anxiety in Look Back in AngerRenegotiations of Identity in Saturday Night and Sunday MorningQueering the Domestic in A Taste of Honey2 “Off Down the Local”—Institutional Borders in Working-Class CommunitiesShared Space and Working-Class InstitutionsCollective Consciousness and Shared ExperienceShared Space and Identity Formation in Saturday Night and Sunday MorningClass Migration and Social Stasis in This Sporting LifeContours of Class and Mobility in Up the Junction3 Spatial Transgression and The Working-Class ImaginaryTheorizing Spatial Transgression: From the Production of Space to the Non-SpaceTransgressive Space and Post-WWII PotentialitySpatial Transgression and the Working-Class Imaginary in Up the JunctionSubterranean Space and Diasporic Demimondes in City of SpadesDifferential Space and Inversion in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner4 Against Class Fetishism: The Legacy of Kitchen Sink RealismA Genealogy of the Realist Mode: Form Versus FunctionCritical Approaches to Kitchen Sink AestheticsMultimedia Motifs and Kitchen Sink ThematicsCommodified “Kitsch-en” Sinks in Coronation StreetChannel 4 and Coordinated Class EffectsTheaters of Anger and AggressionClass and Space in Contemporary FictionConclusionBibliographyIndex

An innovative and intelligent contribution to the rapidly developing field of working-class literary studies and its project of recovering different voices, perspectives, and ways of understanding, of rethinking what literature is and what it does.