Antoinette Burton and Stephanie Fortado, eds. Histories of a Radical Book: E. P. Thompson and “The Making of the English Working Class”. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. Pp. 128. $120.00 (cloth).
Abstract:issue of "nation" is never addressed, though the construction and expression of national identity has a large research literature of its own. Even the territorial space is misleading. The book is about England, not Britain-Scotland gets just a couple of mentions while Wales is ignored (except for Gwen's little terrace house in Barry in Gavin and Stacey). And, despite a few references to Manchester, the book is about London. The literature is overwhelmingly about London, while the sitcoms are mostly implicitly,… Show more
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