@article{1450681,
      author = {Harroitt, Robin,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1450681},
      title = {The Birmingham Group : reading the second city in the  1930s /},
      abstract = {The focus of this study is the collective of writers known  variously as the Birmingham Group, the Birmingham School or  the Birmingham Proletarian Writers who were active in the  City of Birmingham in the decade prior to the Second World  War. Their narratives chronicle the lived-experience of  their fellow citizens in the urban manufacturing centre  which had by this time become Britains second city.  Presumed guilty by association with a working-class  literature considered overtly propagandistic, formally  conservative, or merely the naive emulation of bourgeois  realism, their narratives have in consequence suffered  undue critical neglect. This book repudiates such  assertions by arguing that their works not only contrast  markedly with other examples of working-class writing  produced in the 1930s but also prove themselves responsive  to recent critical assessments seeking a more holistic and  intersectional approach to issues of working-class  identity. Robin Harriott holds the degrees of B.A. (Hons),  M. Phil., and was recently (2021) awarded his PhD in  English Literature from the University of Birmingham, UK.  Formerly a teacher of English, he is now an independent  researcher with interests in working-class writing and  culture.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14383-0},
      recid = {1450681},
      pages = {1 online resource},
}