Transnational Working-Class Literatures - 9783031923050

Transnational Working-Class LiteraturesCanons and Connections in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries\nAuthor(s): Wiktor Marzec, Magnus Nilsson, Mike Sanders\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783031923050, 978-3031923050\nSynopsis\nThis book offers a pioneering study of the national, transnational, and international dimensions of working-class literature. It explores both the historically and geographically varied nature of the relationship between working-class literatures and national canons, and the importance of international and transnational exchanges in the development of working-class literature. Through a series of detailed case studies (its sixteen essays analyse working-class literatures from the early nineteenth century to the present day and cover thirteen countries across three continents) this collection not only analyses the factors which lead to the incorporation or exclusion of w.