- Hardcover: 334 pages
- Publisher: Harvard University Press (31 Mar 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0674021770
- ISBN-13: 978-0674021778
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 15 x 3.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 725,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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authentic working class voices
10 Jun 2007
Format:Hardcover
For centuries, Britain has been plagued with a persistent class structure. One characteristic is that the majority of prominent British writers have hailed from the middle or upper classes. But what about writers from the proletariat?
What Hilliard reminds us, if we knew it in the first place, was that since the 1920s, there was a conscious effort to answer that question. By providing a supportive cultural environment for new writers to emerge from the working class. Thus, Writers Clubs arose, along with magazines, especially the eponymous Writer, that explicitly wanted to build up this constituency.
The book also takes us into the political issues of the times. We see that to describe such writers and their support is inseparable from many hot button topics. Especially when the 1930s rolled around and the Great Depression took root. A bleak and authentic background.
What Hilliard reminds us, if we knew it in the first place, was that since the 1920s, there was a conscious effort to answer that question. By providing a supportive cultural environment for new writers to emerge from the working class. Thus, Writers Clubs arose, along with magazines, especially the eponymous Writer, that explicitly wanted to build up this constituency.
The book also takes us into the political issues of the times. We see that to describe such writers and their support is inseparable from many hot button topics. Especially when the 1930s rolled around and the Great Depression took root. A bleak and authentic background.
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