| Description |
xv, 300 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Class, culture
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Class, culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-284) and index. |
| Contents |
1. The veil and the vision : reading class in American literature -- 2. "Discovering some new race" : "life in the iron mills," whiteness, and the genesis of the American labor narrative -- 3. Voices of insurgency : strikes, speech, and social realism -- 4. Middle-class melancholy and proletarian pain : the writer as class transvestite -- 5. Modernism and the aesthetics of management : T.S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein write labor literature -- 6. The fetish of being inside : proletarian texts and working-class bodies |
| Subject |
Working class in literature.
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Working class in literature. |
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| ISBN |
0472031872 paperback acid-free paper |
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9780472115693 acid-free paper |
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0472115693 acid-free paper |
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9780472031870 paperback acid-free paper |
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