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131-261/361 The Working Class in History and Literature

Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years

Coordinator: Professor S Macintyre.

Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour class per week.

Timetable: Second semester

Objectives:

At the completion of this subject students will be familiar with a range of working-class novels. They will appreciate the circumstances in which these novels were written, and the conditions o their circulation. They will be able to compare such texts with other historical sources.

Content:

This subject looks at the representation of work and workers in nineteenth and twentieth-century writing, in Europe, North America and Australia. It pays special attention to the themes of the working-class community, national and regional class formations, gender and class, and the politics of literature.

Assessment:

Assessment will consist of one essay of about 2,000 words (40%) and one essay of about 3,000 words (60%).

Prescribed texts:

• Wilding, Michael, Political Fictions, London, 1980
• Klaus, H. Gustav, The Literature of Labour, Brighton, 1985
• Klaus, H. Gustav (ed. ), The Socialist Novel in Britain, Brighton, 1982
• Swingewood, Alan, The Myth of Mass Culture, London, 1977
• Reid, Ian, Fiction and the Great Depression, Melbourne, 1979

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131-261/361 The Working Class in History and Literature

Credit points: 16.7

Coordinator: Professor S Macintyre.

Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour class each week.

Timetable: Second semester.

Objectives:

At the completion of this subject students will be familiar with a range of working-class novels. They will appreciate the circumstances in which these novels were written, and the conditions o their circulation. They will be able to compare such texts with other historical sources.

Content:

This subject looks at the representation of work and workers in nineteenth and twentieth-century writing, in Europe, North America and Australia. It pays special attention to the themes of the working-class community, national and regional class formations, gender and class, and the politics of literature.

Assessment:

Assessment will consist of one essay of about 2,000 words (40 per cent); one essay of about 3,000 words (60 per cent).

Prescribed texts:

• Wilding, Michael, Political Fictions, London, 1980
• Klaus, H. Gustav, The Literature of Labour, Brighton, 1985
• Klaus, H. Gustav (ed. ), The Socialist Novel in Britain, Brighton, 1982
• Swingewood, Alan, The Myth of Mass Culture, London, 1977
• Reid, Ian, Fiction and the Great Depression, Melbourne, 1979

* Note that ASSESSMENT, CONTACT, POINTS, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.

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