001450681 000__ 04419cam\a2200517\i\4500
001450681 001__ 1450681
001450681 003__ OCoLC
001450681 005__ 20230310004538.0
001450681 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\
001450681 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun
001450681 008__ 221026s2022\\\\sz\\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d
001450681 019__ $$a1347783943$$a1348489065
001450681 020__ $$a9783031143830$$q(electronic bk.)
001450681 020__ $$a3031143833$$q(electronic bk.)
001450681 020__ $$z3031143825
001450681 020__ $$z9783031143823
001450681 0247_ $$a10.1007/978-3-031-14383-0$$2doi
001450681 035__ $$aSP(OCoLC)1348882827
001450681 040__ $$aGW5XE$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cGW5XE$$dYDX$$dEBLCP$$dN$T$$dOCLCF$$dUKAHL
001450681 043__ $$ae-uk-en
001450681 049__ $$aISEA
001450681 050_4 $$aPR8489.B57
001450681 08204 $$a820.99424909043$$223/eng/20221026
001450681 1001_ $$aHarroitt, Robin,$$eauthor.
001450681 24514 $$aThe Birmingham Group :$$breading the second city in the 1930s /$$cRobin Harriott.
001450681 264_1 $$aCham, Switzerland :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c2022.
001450681 300__ $$a1 online resource
001450681 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent
001450681 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia
001450681 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier
001450681 504__ $$aIncldues bibliographical references and index.
001450681 5050_ $$a1 Introduction: They at Least Were Not Hybrids -- A Multiplicity in Unity: The Birmingham Writers and Their City -- Shaping Influences: Finding the Exotic in the Everyday -- Going Over: The Cultural Diaspora -- At last the British are Coming: Prevailing and Contemporary Critiques of Working-Class Literature -- The Ethnographic Turn -- 2 This Working Life: Work and the Workplace -- A Fellow Traveller? Henry Green: Birminghams Adoptive Proletarian -- Walter Allen: As a Film Director might present it: Blind Mans Ditch -- As Unpolitical a Man as I Have Ever Met: Leslie Halward -- Leslie Halward: Belchers Hod -- 3 Feeling the Pinch: Unemployment -- A Qualitative Deficit: Filling the Statistical Gap -- Walter Brierley: Frustration and Bitterness: A Colliery Banksman -- Walter Brierley: Means Test Man -- John Hampson: Man About the House -- Walter Allen: Innocence Is Drowned -- 4 Writing Their Selves: Subjectivity and Representation in Birmingham Group Narrative -- A Reluctant Collier? Walter Brierley: Body -- Walter Brierley: Sandwichman -- Leslie Halward: A Broken Engagement -- Peter Chamberlain: An Eavesdroppers Secrets: Mr. Marris Reputation and What the Hell? -- John Hampson: Saturday Night at the Greyhound -- 5 Conclusion -- Coda: Dispersal -- The Legacy.
001450681 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
001450681 520__ $$aThe 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.
001450681 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record.
001450681 650_0 $$aEnglish literature$$zEngland$$zBirmingham.
001450681 650_0 $$aEnglish literature$$y20th century$$xHistory and criticism.
001450681 655_7 $$aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$$2fast$$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
001450681 655_0 $$aElectronic books.
001450681 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aHARRIOTT, ROBIN.$$tBIRMINGHAM GROUP.$$d[Place of publication not identified] : PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2022$$z3031143825$$w(OCoLC)1334884738
001450681 852__ $$bebk
001450681 85640 $$3Springer Nature$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-14383-0$$zOnline Access$$91397441.1
001450681 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1450681$$pGLOBAL_SET
001450681 980__ $$aBIB
001450681 980__ $$aEBOOK
001450681 982__ $$aEbook
001450681 983__ $$aOnline
001450681 994__ $$a92$$bISE