Article: Twentieth-Century Writing and the British Working Class.(book by John Kirk)(Book Review)

Twentieth-Century Writing and the British Working Class. By John Kirk. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2003. viii + 224 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-7083-1813-4.

This is a compact but valuable book. It contrasts representations of the working class in three periods (the 1930s, the late 1950s, and 1980 and beyond); it mobilizes a range of interpretive frames (most usefully from Williams and Bakhtin) and it offers partial but responsive readings of featured texts.

John Kirk examines a wide range of texts, from novels now widely recognized (even by some university departments) such as The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and Saturday Night and ...

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