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

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Posits social class as the American political unconscious, showing (in an analysis of 19th and 20th century novels) how class exerts pressure on the American cultural imagination, and claiming that what is desired is ultimately the liberation from work.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Seguin, Robert, 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Arbeid.
Middenklassen.
Amerikaans.
Romans.
Working class in literature.
Work in literature.
Social conditions
Social change in literature.
Middle class in literature.
Literature and society.
Fantasy in literature.
Class consciousness in literature.
American fiction.
Labor in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Travail dans la litterature.
Fantasmes dans la litterature.
Changement social dans la litterature.
Travailleurs dans la litterature.
Conscience de classe dans la litterature.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Classes moyennes dans la litterature.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Class, middle class, and the modalities of labor
  • The burden of toil: Sister Carrie as urban pastoral
  • Willa Cather and the ambivalence of hierarchy
  • New frontiers in Hollywood: mobility and desire in the Day of the locust
  • Into the 1950s: fiction in the age of consensus
  • Postscript: the insistence of class and the framing of culture in the American scene.

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