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LEADER: 01972nam a22003618i 4500
001 2015028002
003 DLC
005 20150915145356.0
008 150914s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015028002
020 $a9781784781910 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-uk-en
050 00 $aPR888.L3$bM85 2015
082 00 $a823/.91093520623$223
084 $aPHI019000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMulhern, Francis.
245 10 $aFigures of catastrophe :$bthe condition of culture novel /$cFrancis Mulhern.
263 $a1601
264 1 $aBrooklyn, NY :$bVerso,$c2015.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the English novel and demonstrates its intimate, formative association with the course of the British labor movement, from its rise in the early twentieth century to the years of decline from the 1980s onwards. In this striking reconstruction, culture emerges as a stake in social conflict, above all that of classes; the narrative evaluations of culture's ends--the aspirations and destinies of those whose lives are the matter of its fictions--grow steadily darker as time passes. Readings of classic and contemporary novelists from Hardy and Forster to Amis, Kureishi and Smith, among others, illuminate the forms and narrative logics of the genre that Mulhern terms the "condition of culture novel," and places it in international context"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zEngland$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aLabor movement in literature.
650 0 $aWorking class in literature.
650 7 $aPHILOSOPHY / Political.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$u9781784781910.jpg