Rethinking Class - Literary Studies and Social Formations

The first section of the book restores class to its moment of inception as both a theoretical construct and an objectively descriptive category. In the second section, the contributors test some of the general propositions set forth by examining the categorization of class as itself a history and a problematic. The text concludes by asking how the category of class can enrich and complicate our response to specific literary texts.

Summary

As the importance of race and gender has become established recently in literary studies, the concept of class has been seen as crude and unnecessary. This study argues for the continuing vitality as well as the energizing problematics of the category of class in literature.

Product details

• Authors: Wai-Chee Gilmore Dimock, Michael T. Gilmore
• Assisted by: Wai-Chee Dimock (Editor), Michael Gilmore (Editor), Michael T. Gilmore (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.09.1994
• EAN: 9780231076012
• ISBN: 978-0-231-07601-2
• No. of pages: 285
• Series: Social Foundations of Aestheti; The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S.; Social Foundations of Aestheti
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies