British industrial fictions / edited by H. Gustav Klaus and Stephen Knight.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klaus, H. Gustav, 1944-

Knight, Stephen, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Industries in literature.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Working class writings, English--History and criticism.

Working class writings, English.

Working class in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2000.

Contents:

'Graphic narratives and discoveries of horror': the feminization of labour in nineteenth-century radical fiction / Ian Haywood

Accidents of production: instrumentalism and the worker's body in early Victorian fiction

'In the darg': fiction nails the midlands metal-worker / Valentine Cunningham

The ship builder's story / H. Gustav Klaus

Highs and lows: the problem of 'culture' in The ragged trousered philanthropists / Gary Day

Fire and horror: the representation of teesside in fiction / Andy Croft

Tone of voice in industrial writing in the 1930s / Simon Dentith

James Hanley's The furys: modernism and the working class / John Fordham

Lewis Jones's Cwmardy and We live: two Welsh proletarian novels in transatlantic perspective / Rolf Meyn

"Two strikes and you're out": 1926 and 1951 in Welsh industrial fiction / James A. Davies

Arthur Seaton and the machine: a new reading of Allan Silltoe's Saturday night and Sunday morning / Kathleen Bell

"The uncertainties and hesitations that were the truth": Welsh industrial fictions by women / Stephen Knight

'Work as if you live the early days of a better nation': Scottish fiction and the experience of industry / Ian A. Bell

People like that: the fiction of Agnes Owens / Ingrid von Rosenberg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0708315968

0708315976

OCLC:

44595971