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An innovative and intelligent contribution to the rapidly developing field of working-class literary studies and its project of recovering different voices, perspectives, and ways of understanding, of rethinking what literature is and what it does.
An innovative and intelligent contribution to the rapidly developing field of working-class literary studies and its project of recovering different voices, perspectives, and ways of understanding, of rethinking what literature is and what it does.
Simon Lee sets out an important and compelling case for how the kitchen sink realism of the 1950s and 1960s moved beyond 1930s proletarian representations to establish new forms of classed identity, which remain the benchmark for working-class writing today.
Simon Lee is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University, USA where he researches and teaches Post-WWII British literature, social class and labour history. He has published on writers such as Colin MacInnes, Shelagh Delaney, John Osborne and Pat Barker, and on topics such as immigration, nationalism and cultural identity.