Landscape and Labour : Work, Place, and the Working Class in Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence, Paperback / softback Book

Landscape and Labour : Work, Place, and the Working Class in Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence Paperback / softback

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In the novels of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and D.H.

Lawrence a miniature history of the English working class can be found.

Through their sympathetic portrayals, these authors transformed working-class culture from a patronizing pastiche into a vital reality.

This achievement was crucial to the rise of the English working-class as the key agency of democratic reform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

In our own times, by contrast, depictions of working-class culture are patronizing at best, if not openly denigrating.

This crisis of representation has born recent fruit in the phenomenon of populism, a long-term consequence of the undermining of genuinely popular rule under neoliberal capitalism.

Returning to the works of Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence in this book the author offers a sense of direction for contemporary politics, by rediscovering the vital force of working-class culture.

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