Evading Class in Contemporary British Literature

Abstract

Introduction: Questions of Class in the Contemporary British Novel 'Unworkable Subjects': Middle-Class Narratives in Pat Barker, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro 'Our Economic Position': Middle-Class Consciousness in Zadie Smith and Will Self Classless Fictions?: Middle-Class History/Working-Class Subjects in Martin Amis, Peter Ackroyd, and Hanif Kureishi We're all Bourgeois Now: Realism and Class in Alan Hollinghurst, Graham Swift, and Jonathan Coe A Class Act: Representations of Class in British Cinema and Television