Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature

Ben Clarke is Associate Professor of Post-1900 British Literature at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA. His publications include Orwell in Context: Communities, Myths, Values (2007), Understanding Richard Hoggart: A Pedagogy of Hope (with Michael Bailey and John K. Walton, 2012), and Working-Class Writing: Theory and Practice (co-edited with Nick Hubble, 2018).

• Introduction: What is Working-Class Literature?Part I. Theorizing Working-Class LiteratureChapter 1. Working-class literature(s)Chapter 2. Revolutionary Tendencies: Theories of Working-Class WritingChapter 3. Writing a Class to Come: Social Fiction, Heterogeneity, and the PoliticalChapter 4. Seeing Anew: Making Working-Class Literature Visible Through a Working-Class Intersectional GazeChapter 5. Struggle as Class Motif: ‘Difficulty’ in Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie BainPart II. Literature and the Making of the Working ClassChapter 6. Literature and the Labouring Poor in Early Modern EnglandChapter 7. The Rhyme of the Ancient Labourer: working-class poets and the classicsChapter 8. The Invisibility of Working-Class Self-Representation in Literary Classrooms, with a Focus on the Romantic-PeriodChapter 9. Working-Class Writing in Victorian Britain, 1837-1901Chapter 10. Working-Class British Women Writers, 1840-1914: Resistance and CommunityChapter 11. One Hundred Years of Defining (German) Working-Class LiteraturePart III. Working-Class Literature in the Age of ExtremesChapter 12. D. H. Lawrence, Class and CultureChapter 13. Work, Sex, and Women in D.H. Lawrence’s Fiction: Intersections of Class and GenderChapter 14. ‘Clamouring for Revolutionary Literature’: Working-Class Writing in the CaribbeanChapter 15. Coalitional Politics for Exiles and Nationalists: H. T. Tsiang’s And China Has HandsChapter 16. Broken Hands: Class and Disability in 20th-Century American PoetryPart IV. Neoliberalism and the Future of Working-Class LiteratureChapter 17. Dramatic Representations of ‘Them’ and ‘Us’ Class Struggle in Neoliberal BritainChapter 18. Music and hope in Irish working-class recession writing: Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments and Emmet Kirwan’s Dublin OldschoolChapter 19. Representations of Class and Race in East African Asian LiteraturesChapter 20. Beyond Human Futures in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s PeopleChapter 21. The Labor of Migrant SubjectivityChapter 22. Migrant Workers in Asia Today: A Brief Introduction.Chapter 23. Working-Class Representation in Cinema and Literature in the Digital AgeChapter 24. Common People: Breaking the Glass Ceiling in UK PublishingChapter 25. An Alternative History of Working-Class TheatreChapter 26. Keeping Class Visible in Recession-Era Irish PoetryChapter 27. Proletarian Futures: Some Representations of the Working Class in Science Fiction”Index