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The other history.(depictions of the working class in the work of Robert Tressell, Upton Sinclair and George Orwell)

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From: Canadian Dimension
Date: 19970701
Author:Bell, Fraser

Novelists Robert Tressell, George Orwell and Upton Sinclair were among the first writers to capture the working man's plight in their work. Tressell did so in 'The Ragged Trousered Philantrophists' while Orwell and Sinclair advanced the genre further in 'The Road to Wigan Pier' and 'The Jungle.'

INTRODUCTION: THE OTHER HISTORY

Although this three part - series concentrates on the working - class experience of the 20th century, writers like Robert Tressell, George Orwell and Jack London owe a debt to a semi-submerged literary tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages. The old ...

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