Working-class women: elegy, agency and authorship in narratives of the deindustrialised North.

This project will argue that artistic depictions of the British working-class from the period in which deindustrialisation took place (c.1950-1990) are marked by a sense of loss, even elegy, in relation to the past. While previous explorations of working-class elegy have focused on the loss of masculine industrial labour (Dave 2003; Russell 2004),…