John Kirk is Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, Bretton Campus. He has published widely on working-class writing and culture in journals such as Literature and History, Contemporary Literature, Journal of Narrative Theory, Textual Practice and Race and Class.

'The University of Wales Press is to be complimented on publishing a work from which provides so many insights for the field of Welsh cultural studies.' www.gwales.com

• Introduction: Some Theoretical Perspectives I Contrary Voices: Images of the British Working Class from the 1930s and 1950s II Class, Community and 'Structures of Feeling' III Figuring the Dispossessed: Images of the Urban Working Class in the Writing of James Kelman IV Recovered Perspectives: Feminism and the Working Class V Recent Northern Realism: Return of the Repressed VI Black/Asian British Writing and Articulations of Class

John Kirk is Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, Bretton Campus. He has published widely on working-class writing and culture in journals such as Literature and History, Contemporary Literature, Journal of Narrative Theory, Textual Practice and Race and Class.

'The University of Wales Press is to be complimented on publishing a work from which provides so many insights for the field of Welsh cultural studies.' www.gwales.com

• Introduction: Some Theoretical Perspectives I Contrary Voices: Images of the British Working Class from the 1930s and 1950s II Class, Community and 'Structures of Feeling' III Figuring the Dispossessed: Images of the Urban Working Class in the Writing of James Kelman IV Recovered Perspectives: Feminism and the Working Class V Recent Northern Realism: Return of the Repressed VI Black/Asian British Writing and Articulations of Class