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Evading Class in Contemporary British Literature

Evading Class in Contemporary British Literature

Driscoll, L.

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0230615279
ISBN13: 9780230615274
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jul 14 2009
Pages: 243
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
This trenchant book argues that the cultural attempt to erase class during the period from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair has only generated its return as a troubling subterranean element in British literature and theory. Driscoll critiques the way postmodern theory idealizes contemporary British literature as a space of fluid, flexible decentered subjects, arguing that beneath this ideology are clear evasions of class. Offering critical readings of canonized middle-class authors from Martin Amis to Graham Swift, Driscoll makes the compelling argument that the contemporary British novel, assisted by class blind? postmodern literary theory consistently works to control the problem of class.

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