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Landscape and Labour: Work, Place, and the Working Class in Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence
by Elliott, Brian
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Overview
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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 in this book the author offers a sense of direction for contemporary politics, by rediscovering the vital force of working-class culture.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Elliott, Brian
- ISBN: 9781538158562
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 9.00 x 0.39
- Number Of Pages: 168
- Publication Year: 2023
Language:
English