Introduction

  • Michael Pierse
Chapter

Abstract

“The ‘working classes’ have been the source of much disappointment and disgust for the middle-class observers who have studied them, and, in large part, this is marked out through the lack of legitimacy granted to working-class cultural capital,” writes Steph Lawler. In orthodox academic and cultural terms, “they do not know the right things, they do not value the right things, they do not want the right things”.1 How, then, could the working classes read, let alone write, the right things? Since the development and codification of middle-class concepts of art and culture in Western Europe from the early eighteenth century, “taste” has been closely aligned with the attitudes and affectations of the middle and upper classes. In Terry Eagleton’s enigmatic words, “only those with an interest [property] can be disinterested” — only those with a stake in capitalism can be truly capable of setting the standards for valid cultural appreciation. If the middle class governs the ruling ideas, it promotes and “discovers in discourse an idealised image of its own social relations”.2 Against this image, writing and culture generally of the working class is found wanting. This book aims to explore the development of a specific lineage of writing of the working class against the backdrop of such elitist practices. It seeks also to expose a particular legacy of neglect and snobbery in an Irish context, in the realm of literature and its appreciation, which resonates more broadly in the fabric of Irish cultural and social life to this day.

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Working Class Class Struggle Irish Society Marxist Theory Class Culture 
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