Locating Classed Subjectivities

Simon Lee is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University where he researches and teaches post-war British Literature with a particular focus on working-class writing and culture. He has published a range of scholarship on British writing, specifically authors like Alan Sillitoe, Shelagh Delaney, Colin MacInnes, Nell Dunn, and John Osborne.

Introduction: Space and Social Class in Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-first-century British Writing

Simon Lee

1 Fevered Anxieties: Public Health, Infrastructure, and Infectious Classes in Austen, Edgeworth, and Scott

Matthew L. Reznicek

2 Spaces of Little Dorrit; or, The Global Marshalsea

Meghan Jordan

3 "For God’s sake, women, go out and play": Nomadic Space in the Work of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

Patricia E. Johnson

4 "Class Lives": Spatial Awareness and Political Consciousness in British Mining Novels of the 1930s

Nick Hubble

5 Remembering the Future: A Modernized London in Proud City and The End of the Affair

Elizabeth Floyd

6 "Low tastes": John Braine, Drinking and Class

Ben Clarke

7 Addressing Stigma: Demonized Locales in Pat Barker's Union Street

Simon Lee

8 Ghost Towns: The Haunting, Deindustrialized Spaces of Ross Raisin’s Waterline and Martin Amis’s Lionel Asbo

Nick Bentley

9 "Paths that Lead Me Back": Zadie Smith’s Northwest London

Molly Slavin

10 "Be Gone": Escaping Racialized Working-Class Space in Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr. Loverman and Girl, Woman, Other

Cornelia Photopoulos

11 "All I need is myself": Spatializing Neoliberal Class Consciousness in the Northern Millennial Novel

Chloé Ashbridge