| Description |
xxi, 248 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-243) and index. |
| Contents |
The rhetoric of the office in Melville's "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- The business of sexuality in The rise of Silas Lapham -- The businessman and the fairy child in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt -- From Babbittry to Gray flannel via tropical incoporation -- Sloan Wilson's Gray flannel man in the queer organization -- Fear, paranoia, and self-pity in Joseph Heller's Something happened -- Shoelaces, social energy, and sexuality in Nicholson Baker's The mezzanine and The fermata -- Microserfs, modern migration, and the architecture of the 1990s. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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Offices in literature.
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Offices in literature. |
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Bartleby, the scrivener.
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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920. Rise of Silas Lapham.
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Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951. Babbitt.
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Sex (Psychology) in literature.
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Sex (Psychology) in literature. |
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Sex in literature.
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Sex in literature. |
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Men in literature.
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Men in literature. |
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Howells, W. D. (William Dean), 1837-1920. Rise of Silas Lapham. |
| ISBN |
0877458480 acid-free paper |
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