Routledge Companion to Literature and Class

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class offers a comprehensive and fresh assessment of the cultural impact of class in literature, analyzing various innovative, interdisciplinary approaches of textual analysis and intersections of literature, including class subjectivities, mental health, gender and queer studies, critical race theory, quantitative and scientific methods, and transnational perspectives in literary analysis.

Utilizing these new methods and interdisciplinary maps from field-defining essayists, students will become aware of ways to bring these elusive texts into their own writing as one of the parallel perspectives through which to view literature. This volume will provide students with an insight into the history of the intersections of class, theory of class and invisibility in literature, and new trends in exploring class in literature. These multidimensional approaches to literature will be a crucial resource for undergraduate and graduate students becoming familiar with class analysis, and will offer seasoned scholars the most significant critical approaches in class studies.

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Introduction to The Routledge Literature and Class Companion
Part I: History of the Intersections of Class
Intersections of Class, Race, and Gender in Australian Indigenous Literature
Sarah Attfield

Class Shifts in Yuan Dynasty China
Kacey Evilsizor

Victorian Socialist Obituaries and the Politics of Cross-Class Community
Ingrid Hanson

Social Class and Devastated Land in Yang Dantao's Science Fiction
Hua Li

New York Literature and Social Space: The Tenement and the Street
Adam R. McKee

Elena Ferrante's Fiction of Problematized Providing and Protecting
Cristina Migliaccio

Dickens and Society: Can Dickens's "Uppers" Change Their Minds?
Peter J. Ponzio

Songs of Synthesis: Poetics of Working-Class Revolt
Zara Richter

The Urban Spatiality of Street Literature
Mattius Rischard

Allegories of Proletarian Literature: Boyden, Bontemps, and Halper in the Depression Era
William Solomon

Angry Young Men and The Loss of Empire
Stanley Wilkin

Part II: Class in Literature: Intermittently (In)visible

Race and Class as Catalysts for Obscuring a Novel
Aaron Barlow

Productive Disruption in the Working-Class Poetry of Jan Beatty, Sandra Cisneros, and Wanda Coleman
Carrie Conners

Rhetorical Voice and Class in Adichie's "Subaltern" Fiction 
Kristy Liles Crawley

Dickens's Fairness in Describing Italian Complexity
Germana Cubeta

The British Working-Class Bildungsroman during the Great Depression
Charles Ferrall

Enunciations and Avoidances of Capital and Class in the Evolution of Irish Theatre
Eamonn Jordan

Class and Upper-Middle-Class Consciousness in Katherine Mansfield's Stories
Peter R. Kuch

Writing Working-Class Irish Mothers
Heather Laird

Social Class and Mental Health in Contemporary British Fiction
Simon Lee

Penny Fiction and Chartism: A Literature's Exclusion from the Canon
Rebecca Nesvet

Abject Capitalism as the Sight and Dead Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Novels
Matthew L. Reznicek

Part III: New Multifactor Trends in Literature Theory

Ta-Nehisi Coates Demystifies American Class and Race Mythology
Marleen S. Barr

Desiring Weird Bodies: Class Subjectivities in Hardy, Wilde, and Woolf
Rebecca W. Boylan

Oral Storytelling as a Transnational Aesthetic in the Industrial Novel
Erin Cheslow

Class, Race, and Social Stratification in British Theatre Between 1950s and 2000s
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Pecuniary Emulation, Anomie, and the Alleged Metropolitan Conversion of Sister Carrie
Wendy Graham

Power and the Dialectics of Twentieth Century Science Fiction
Christopher Loughlin

The Strange Case of Dystopian Fiction
Patricia McManus

On Capital and Class with Balzac, James, and Fitzgerald
Erik S. Roraback

Darwinian Ideas and Marxian Idealism in Austen, Twain, Yeats, Camus, and Ishiguro
Nancy Ann Watanabe

The "Metaholon" Method for Class-Based Literature Analysis
Agnieszka M. Will

Index

Info autore

Gloria McMillan is Research Associate in the Department of English at the University of Arizona. Her dissertation won the Florence Hemley Schneider Prize in Women’s Studies. She has taught college writing for over 27 years, has a number of produced plays (Universe Symphony, Pass the Ectoplasm), and has published a novel (The Blue Maroon Murder) and journal articles. She edited the multi-disciplinary essay collection Orbiting Ray Bradbury’s Mars (2012).

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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class offers a comprehensive and fresh assessment of the cultural impact of class in literature, analyzing various innovative, interdisciplinary approaches of textual analysis and intersections of literature, including class subjectivities, mental health, gender and queer studies, critical race theory, quantitative and scientific methods, and transnational perspectives in literary analysis.
Utilizing these new methods and interdisciplinary maps from field-defining essayists, students will become aware of ways to bring these elusive texts into their own writing as one of the parallel perspectives through which to view literature. This volume will provide students with an insight into the history of the intersections of class, theory of class and invisibility in literature, and new trends in exploring class in literature. These multidimensional approaches to literature will be a crucial resource for undergraduate and graduate students becoming familiar with class analysis, and will offer seasoned scholars the most significant critical approaches in class studies.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gloria McMillan
• Con la collaborazione di: Gloria McMillan (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9780367442118
• ISBN: 978-0-367-44211-8
• Pagine: 472
• Serie: Routledge Literature Companions
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism