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

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.

Info autore

Robert Seguin is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York at Brockport.

Riassunto

Focuses on a series of modern writers who were acutely sensitive to the American web of ideology and utopic vision in order to argue that a pervasive middle-class imaginary is the key to the enigma of class in America. This book will interest literary scholars, and those who explore the interaction between economic and cultural forms.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Robert Seguin, SEGUIN
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 20.06.2001
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata
• EAN: 9780822326755
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2675-5
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.7 x 23.1 x 2.3 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 612 g
• Serie: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Categorie: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, Amerikanisches Englisch, Regionalstudien, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General