Driscoll argues that the attempted cultural erasure of class in Great Britainin the period since Thatcher has only generated its return as a troubling subterranean element in literature and theory. INDICE: - 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
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61527-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 14/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés