Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.