{"product_id":"9781786609106","title":"Landscape and Labour : Work, Place, and the Working Class in Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence","description":"\u003cp\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 allows us to regain a sense of direction for contemporary politics, by rediscovering the vital force of working-class culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48838907134187,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":219.74,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781786609106-1.jpg?v=1781703464","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781786609106","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}