Name: British Industrial Fictions
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Stephen Knight is Professor of English Literature at University of Wales, Cardiff. H.Gustav Klaus is Professor of Literature of the British Isles at the University of Rostock, Germany.

Notes on Contributors

1. Introduction

H. Gustav Klaus and Stephen Knight

2. ‘Graphic Narratives and Discoveries of Horror’: the Feminization of Labour in Nineteenth-century Radical Fiction

Ian Haywood

3. Accidents of Production: Industrialism and the Worker’s Body in Early Victorian Fiction

Mike Sanders

4. ‘In the Darg’: Fiction Nails the Midlands Metal-worker Valentine Cunningham 5. The Shipbuilders’ Story H. Gustav Klaus 6. Highs and Lows: the Problem of ‘Culture’ in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Gary Day 7. Fire and Horror: the Representation of Teesside in Fiction Andy Croft 8. Tone of Voice in Industrial Writing in the 1930s Simon Dentith 9. James Hanley’s The Furys: Modernism and the Working Class John Fordham 10. Lewis Jones’s Cwmardy and We Live: Two Welsh Proletarian Novels in Transatlantic Perspective Rolf Meyn 11. ‘Two Strikes and You’re Out’: 1926 and 1984 in Welsh Industrial Fiction James A. Davies 12. Arthur Seaton and the Machine: a New Reading of Alan Sillitoe’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Kathleen Bell 13. ‘The Uncertainties and Hesitations that were the Truth’: Welsh Industrial Fictions by Women Stephen Knight 14. ‘Work as If you Live in the Early Days of a Better Nation’: Scottish Fiction and the Experience of Industry Ian A. Bell 15. People Like That: the Fiction of Agnes Owens Ingrid von Rosenberg Index

“ . . . a fine and stimulating collection, offering a useful range of new approaches . . .” –New Welsh Review

“ . . . stimulating papers . . . Overall the volume does what good criticism should do – send one back to the writers themselves.” –Planet

“ . . . a worthy and welcome collection of essays . . . a valuable undertaking to attempt to fill a hole in our records of class struggle in industrial settings in British fiction, and such work is a vital contribution to a reassessment of the literary canon, which has been taking place along gender lines but not so much along class lines.” –Literature and History

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