The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction looks at how the twenty-first-
century British novel has explored contemporary working-class life. Studying the works of …

From climate change, debt, and refugee crises to energy security, environmental disasters,
and terrorism, the events that lead nightly newscasts and drive public policy demand a …

Focusing on one of the most frequent and explicit targets of Thatcher's economic policies,
working-class men in traditional heavy industries, I explore representations of the dissolution …

Governmentisgood. com is a website that captures our current plight. The work of Douglas J.
Amy, a political science professor at Mount Holyoke College, it consists of essays written for …

Abstract Focusing on Maxine Peake's performances as a television actor, as real-life
murderer Myra Hindley in Neil McKay's See No Evil (2006) and fictional detective Helen …

This essay shows how genre and place enable the “ontological reading” of narrative fiction.
Such sense-making dialectics enable readers to infer the terms of existence that shape …

This chapter explores the radical potential of crime fiction as social commentary in relation to
the work of David Peace, and his Red Riding Quartet, a series of four crime or 'noir'novels …

To imagine alternative futures it is essential to historicise and denaturalise neoliberal
iterations of freedom. This paper builds on Wendy Brown's injunction to 'undo the …

This chapter focuses upon David Peace's crime writing, specifically the sequence known as
the Red Riding Quartet, four novels published between 1999 and 2002 which deal with …

Ghost Road (1995)—throws a peculiar light on the residua of past sex. Set in Edinburgh's
Craiglockhart War Hospital, in London, and on the Western Front during the later years of …