{"product_id":"landscape-and-labour-work-place-and-the-working-class-in-eliot-hardy-and-lawrence-9781538158562","title":"Landscape and Labour: Work, Place, and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the novels of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and D.H. Lawrence a miniature history of the English working class can be found. Through their sympathetic portrayals, these authors transformed working-class culture from a patronizing pastiche into a vital reality. This achievement was crucial to the rise of the English working-class as the key agency of democratic reform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. In our own times, by contrast, depictions of working-class culture are patronizing at best, if not openly denigrating. This crisis of representation has born recent fruit in the phenomenon of populism, a long-term consequence of the undermining of genuinely popular rule under neoliberal capitalism. Returning to the works of Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence in this book the author offers a sense of direction for contemporary politics, by rediscovering the vital force of working-class culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The political economy of work and place\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: George Eliot: The English working class finds its voice \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Thomas Hardy: Situating working-class politics\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: D.H. Lawrence: A future politics of work\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: New land, new labour\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Neoliberalism and a new working-class politics \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041208435031,"sku":"9781538158562","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538158562.jpg?v=1750949362","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/landscape-and-labour-work-place-and-the-working-class-in-eliot-hardy-and-lawrence-9781538158562","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}