The Peculiarities of English Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12673449 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Noys (0000-0001-6105-3665, University of Chichester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 165-174 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Materialism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-4466 • E-ISSN: 1569-206X |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/1569206x-12341556 |
| OpenAlex | W2791575849 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Francis Mulhern’s Figures of Catastrophe argues for the existence of a hitherto-unnoticed generic form: the condition of culture novel, which offers a metacultural reflection on the conditions for the existence of culture and for access to culture. Mulhern’s analysis is located within the framework of Marxist reflections on culture, the history of British cultural Marxism, and Mulhern’s own project of the critique and analysis of ‘metaculture’ in Britain. In particular, this review focuses on Mulhern’s contention that the ‘condition of culture novel’ offers a catastrophic or even nihilistic vision of the access to culture by the working class. Mulhern’s argument is that the ‘condition of culture’ novel accompanies the emergence, solidification and collapse of the British culture of ‘labourism’. This review explores the consequences of this argument for the assessment of ‘culture’ and the future of the novel as a site of reflection on the condition of culture
Argument (complex analysis · Culture theory · Epistemology · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Reflection (computer programming · Sociology · Anthropology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Philosophy
The pristine culture of capitalism
Considerations on Western Marxism
Arguments within English Marxism
The Agrarian Roots of European Capitalism
There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe
Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe
I did not walk here all the way from prose
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |