Living (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry Vincent Yorke
- First Published: 1929
- Type of Work: Neorealism
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Setting: Birmingham and Liverpool, England
- Principal Characters: Lily Gates, Joe Gates, Mr. Craigan, Jim Dale, Bert Jones, Mr. Dupret, Richard Dupret, Mr. Bridges
- Genres: Long fiction, Neorealist fiction
- Subjects: Values, Factories, Power, personal or social, Class conflict, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Psychology or psychologists, England or English people, Working class, Survivalism, Aristocracy or aristocrats
- Locales: England, Birmingham, England, Liverpool, England
The Novel
Like many of Henry Green’s novels, Living portrays British domestic life in terms of a class struggle: The “upstairs/downstairs” conflicts of Loving (1945) are broadened in Living and in Party Going (1939) to encompass a clash between workers and the aristocratic owners of a Birmingham machine works and iron foundry. Yet class conflict in Green’s novels is rarely presented in terms of actual battles, strikes, or violence; rather, he probes the psychological dimensions of this conflict through the subtle irony existing in a situation...
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