Literature and Institutions of Welfare

Jess Cotton, Beci Carver, Gareth Farmer , Helen Charman

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English

D.S. Brewer
17 December 2024

Literature: history & criticism; Welfare & benefit systems

Series: Essays and Studies

Perspectives on the ways in which welfarist ideology has underpinned the teaching, reading and production of literature from the 1930s to the present.

The welfare state in Britain established a new level of access to literature as a public good alongside other national resources that were grounded in a principle of democratic egalitarianism: the National Health Service, secondary education, promises of full employment and new housing structures. This volume charts the impact of the founding of the welfare state on the teaching, reading and production of literature, and the legacy of this social democratic vision of literature, from the 1930s to the present day; it is especially concerned with the representational possibilities, the social arrangements and political claims that welfare makes possible. Individual contributions consider the ways in which the history of literature is related to the history of welfare; and how it shaped the literary culture that emerged during these years; and how literature has communicated the value and character of the welfare state, moving, like the literature they examine, between a disenchantment with the institutions of welfare and an urgent need to articulate welfare's vision of social repair. Amongst the particular authors discussed are Raymond Williams, T.S. Eliot and Caryl Phillips, as well as an evaluation of the publisher Virago's contribution to the women's movement.

Contributions by: Beci Carver, Gareth Farmer, Helen Charman, Josie Billington
Edited by: Jess Cotton
Imprint: D.S. Brewer
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 412g
ISBN: 9781843847311
ISBN 10: 1843847310
Series: Essays and Studies
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 17 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

JESS COTTON is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK.