The Birmingham Group : reading the second city in the 1930s / Robin Harriott.
Harroitt, Robin, author.
2022
PR8489.B57
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Title The Birmingham Group : reading the second city in the 1930s / Robin Harriott.
Author Harroitt, Robin, author.
ISBN 9783031143830 (electronic bk.)
3031143833 (electronic bk.)
3031143825
9783031143823
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14383-0
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-14383-0 doi
Call Number PR8489.B57
Dewey Decimal Classification 820.99424909043
Summary 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.
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1 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.

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