Introduction : realism and the commons -- The persistence of the commons, the persistence of enclosure -- Dickensian types and a culture of the commons -- Eliot, cosmopolitanism, and the commons -- The typical and the tragic in Hardy's geopolitical commons -- Afterword : old and…
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The enclosure of the commons, space once available for communal use, was not a singular event but an act of "slow violence" that transformed lands, labor, and basic concepts of public life leading into the nineteenth century. The Afterlife of Enclosure examines three canonical B…
"Starting in the late 1970s, tens of thousands of American industrial workers lost jobs in factories and mines. Deindustrialization had dramatic effects on those workers and their communities, but its longterm effects continue to ripple through working-class culture. Economic re…
"The rise of both the empire of cotton and the empire of fashion in the nineteenth century brought new opportunities for sartorial self-expression to millions of ordinary people who could now afford to dress in style and assert their physical presence. Millions of laborers toili…
Theoretical underpinnings: between myth and reality -- The question of Soviet influence -- Cultural heritage and political legitimacy -- A socialist culture: according to plan -- Establishing state structures and consolidating political power in the 1950s -- Culture by decree: t…
A history of British working-class literature
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Reformulates our understanding of the relationship between proletarian literature and modernism in Britain, The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question argued that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain. Criti…
"This critical work seeks to establish a new philosophy of class, drawing on disciplines as diverse as sociology, cognitive science, anthropology and psychology and applying a decidedly Weberian hermeneutical lens. Topics covered include a detailed exploration of Marxism, a revi…
