"The young men of the nation": Alexander Baron and urban working class masculinity

Cartwright, Anthony

Abstract

This chapter discusses the young men characters of the East London novelist, Alexander Baron, in his novels of the Second World War, of post-war London and his historical novel, King Dido, set in the East End in the years before World War One. I examine these characters in the context of Raymond Williams' description of working class experiences of the nineteenth century, set against "the fierce and dynamic trajectories of social and economic transformation and conflict".

• Online Publication Date: May 31, 2017
• Publication Date: Oct 5, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jun 19, 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 327-338
• Book Title: A History of British Working Class Literature
• Chapter Number: 20
• ISBN: 9781107190405
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108105392.022
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/12077115