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Revisiting or rethinking class as a critical category has recently (re-)emerged in literary and cultural studies, and very much so with regard to new millennium fiction. Much attention has been given to new working-class writings; at the same time, critics have also reconsidered representations of the middle class in relation to, for instance, Brexit Lit. and the construction of Britishness, and the question of intersectionality has also been playing a strong role. Accordingly, we shall attempt to explore this range of issues in our seminar by discussing in detail a number of novels that have received strong critical and medial attention. The centrepiece of our coursework will be recent working-class fiction.
Whilst there will be more reading to be done (to be decided upon in class in week I), the core reading so far is as follows:
- Douglas Stewart: Shuggie Bain (Picador)
- Bernadine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other (Penguin)
- Moodle: Iron Mills
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