1st Edition
Locating Classed Subjectivities Intersections of Space and Working-Class Life in Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-First-Century British Writing
Introduction: Space and Social Class in Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-first-century British Writing
Simon Lee
1 Fevered Anxieties: Public Health, Infrastructure, and Infectious Classes in Austen, Edgeworth, and Scott
Matthew L. Reznicek
2 Spaces of Little Dorrit; or, The Global Marshalsea
Meghan Jordan
3 "For God’s sake, women, go out and play": Nomadic Space in the Work of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
Patricia E. Johnson
4 "Class Lives": Spatial Awareness and Political Consciousness in British Mining Novels of the 1930s
Nick Hubble
5 Remembering the Future: A Modernized London in Proud City and The End of the Affair
Elizabeth Floyd
6 "Low tastes": John Braine, Drinking and Class
Ben Clarke
7 Addressing Stigma: Demonized Locales in Pat Barker's Union Street
Simon Lee
8 Ghost Towns: The Haunting, Deindustrialized Spaces of Ross Raisin’s Waterline and Martin Amis’s Lionel Asbo
Nick Bentley
9 "Paths that Lead Me Back": Zadie Smith’s Northwest London
Molly Slavin
10 "Be Gone": Escaping Racialized Working-Class Space in Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr. Loverman and Girl, Woman, Other
Cornelia Photopoulos
11 "All I need is myself": Spatializing Neoliberal Class Consciousness in the Northern Millennial Novel
Chloé Ashbridge
Biography
Simon Lee is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University where he researches and teaches post-war British Literature with a particular focus on working-class writing and culture. He has published a range of scholarship on British writing, specifically authors like Alan Sillitoe, Shelagh Delaney, Colin MacInnes, Nell Dunn, and John Osborne.
