Mechanic Accents - Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America

Informationen zum Autor Michael Denning is a leading Marxist scholar in cultural studies, labor studies, and American Studies (awarded Bode-Pearson prize for lifetime achievement by the American Studies Association); William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of American Studies and of Ethnicity, Race and Migration at Yale University; coordinator of the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture, a pioneering research collective that has appeared in venues from the World Social Forum and Occupy encampments to the Left Forum, the Marxist Education Project, and Historical Materialism conferences; active as public speaker in universities and on podcasts (The Dig, Conjuncture) and contributor to New Left Review ; author of Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution , Culture in the Age of Three Worlds , and The Cultural Front . Klappentext A study of American popular fiction and working-class culture, combining Marxist literary theory with American labour history. The text explores what happened when, in the 19th century, working people began to read cheap novels and the "fiction question" became a class question. Zusammenfassung A study of American popular fiction and working-class culture! combining Marxist literary theory with American labour history. The text explores what happened when! in the 19th century! working people began to read cheap novels and the "fiction question" became a class question.

About the author

Michael Denning is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and the co-director of Yale’s Initiative on Labor and Culture. He is the author of Culture in the Age of Three Worlds; The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century; Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America; and Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller. He coordinates the Working Group on Globalization and Culture, whose collective work includes "Going into Debt," published online in Social Text’s Periscope, and "Spaces and Times of Occupation," published in Transforming Anthropology. In 2014, he received the Bode-Pearson lifetime achievement award from the American Studies Association.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Demming, Michael Denning, Denning Michael
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.09.1998
• EAN: 9781859842508
• ISBN: 978-1-85984-250-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Haymarket (Paperback); Haymarket (Paperback); Haymarket; Haymarket Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Social groups, American English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Social groups, communities and identities, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form