Evading Class in Contemporary British Literature

1. Introduction: Questions of Class in the Contemporary British Novel
Lawrence Driscoll

2. “Unworkable Subjects”: Middle-Class Narratives in Pat Barker, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro
Lawrence Driscoll

3. “Our Economic Position”: Middle-Class Consciousness in Zadie Smith and Will Self
Lawrence Driscoll

4. Classless Fictions?: Middle-Class History/Working-Class Subjects in Martin Amis, Peter Ackroyd, and Hanif Kureishi
Lawrence Driscoll

5. We’re All Bourgeois Now: Realism and Class in Alan Hollinghurst, Graham Swift, and Jonathan Coe
Lawrence Driscoll

6. A Class Act: Representations of Class in British Cinema and Television 1979–2008
Lawrence Driscoll

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature