The social-scientific imagination : Muriel Spark's The Ballad of Peckham Rye

Bernstein, Sarah (2022) The social-scientific imagination : Muriel Spark's The Ballad of Peckham Rye. MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 68 (2). pp. 298-319. ISSN 0026-7724 (https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2022.0013)

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This article concentrates on Muriel Spark’s The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960) and its indirect and mediated representation of the welfare state in the form of a ‘social-scientific imagination’, manifested in both cultural ideology and literary form. The ‘social-scientific imagination’ describes the textual engagement of Spark’s novel with the language and technique of newly professionalised social-scientific disciplines, in particular with new sociological studies of working life. In its representation of a shift in official modes of organising the social body, Spark's novel prefigures the ideological undermining of the welfare state through the invocation of individual responsibility and anti-bureaucratization.

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	79897
  Dates:	Date Event 1 July 2022 Published 31 July 2019 Accepted
  Subjects:	Language and Literature
  Department:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > English
  Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
  Date deposited:	16 Mar 2022 16:05
  Last modified:	16 Jan 2025 02:09
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  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/79897