Around Quitting Time : Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction /

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Virtually since its inception, the United States has nurtured a dreamlike and often delirious image of itself as an essentially classless society. Given the stark levels of social inequality that have actually existed and that continue today, what sustains this at once hopelessly ideological and bre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Seguin, Robert (Autor)
Otros Autores: Pease, Donald E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2001]
Colección:New Americanists : 16
Temas:
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Class consciousness in literature.
Fantasy in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Middle class in literature.
Social change in literature.
Work in literature.
Working class in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • One Class, Middle Class, and the Modalities of Labor
  • Two The Burden of Toil: Sister Carrie as Urban Pastoral
  • Three Willa Cather and the Ambivalence of Hierarchy
  • Four New Frontiers in Hollywood: Mobility and Desire in The Day of the Locust
  • Five Into the 1950s: Fiction in the Age of Consensus
  • Postscript The Insistence of Class and the Framing of Culture in the American Scene
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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