A01=Brian Elliott
Author_Brian Elliott
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Cultural Studies
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Landscape Studies
Literary Studies
Neoliberalism
Political Economy
Political Theory
Working Class Culture
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- ISBN 9781538158562
- Weight: 259g
- Dimensions: 154 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 02 Feb 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 allows us to regain a sense of direction for contemporary politics, by rediscovering the vital force of working-class culture.
Brian Elliott is assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University.
