Home in British working-class fiction
- Submitting institution
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The University of Reading
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 40120
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Ashgate
- ISBN
- 9781409432418
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 252pp. book deploys extensive readings in twentieth-century social and cultural history to explore the depiction of home as a key emotional and material site in working-class writing from the Edwardian period through to the early 1990s. Containing 4 years’ research, the book draws on recent feminist, sociological and historical thinking to stress the importance of home, domestic labour, and the family kitchen in formations and understandings of class. It challenges earlier political readings by drawing into debate contextual and sociological material from the 1920s to 70s. In doing so, it provides an anti-masculinist critique of class and gender assumptions.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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