Narrating Class in American Fiction.
By: Dow, William.
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Electronic Book | UT Tyler Online Online | PS374.S68D69 2009 (Browse shelf) | http://uttyler.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=455262 | Available | EBL455262 |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Case of Class; 1 Whitman''s 1855 Leaves of Grass: "Hard Work and Blood"; 2 Class and the Performative in Rebecca Harding Davis''s Life in the Iron Mills, and Stephen Crane''s Maggie; 3 Body Tramping, Class, and Masculine Extremes: Jack London''s The People of the Abyss; 4 "Always Your Heart": Class Designs in Jean Toomer''s Cane; 5 Meridel Le Sueur''s Salute to Spring: "A Movement Up Which All Are Moving"; 6 Class, Work, and New Races: Zora Neale Hurston''s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Agnes Smedley''s Daughter of Earth
7 Class "Truths" in James Agee''s Let Us Now Praise Famous MenConclusion: Going Back to Class; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Focusing on American fiction from 1850-1940, Narrating Class in American Fiction offers close readings in the context of literary and political history to detail the uneasy attention American authors gave to class in their production of social identities.
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