ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the ‘working-class scholarship boy’ as a significant cultural figure and engages with its impact upon representations of working-class masculinities in British culture (as both creators and protagonists). Tony Harrison’s work in From the School of Eloquence (1978) is used as a means of exploring the effect of alienation upon the relationship between working-class grammar school student and their father, while David Storey’s Pasmore (1972) is employed to demonstrate the crisis of identity that the isolation and alienation of social mobility can cause. Finally, the campus novels of David Lodge (Changing Places [1975]) and Malcolm Bradbury (The History Man [1975]) demonstrate how satire became a means of undermining radical working-class masculinities at a time of great political unrest.
