196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature of those disciplines that both reflect our society and help to shape it. Yet this is nowhere more apparent than in the central field of what may, in general terms, be called literary studies. ‘New... Read more
Chapter 1 Culture and politics; Chapter 2 Education: literacy and literature; Chapter 3 Fiction as politics: working-class writing in the inter-war years; Chapter 4 Gender and genre: men's stories; Chapter 5 Gender and genre: women's stories; Chapter 6 Remembering: feminism and the writing of women; Chapter 7 Some women reading; Chapter 8 Conclusion, in which nothing is concluded;

Biography

Janet Batsleer, Tony Davies, Rebecca O'Rourke, Chris Weedon