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

"A remarkably positive achievement that contributes significantly to an understanding of quite a range of texts, to an understanding of specific currents of literary modernism, and most generally to an understanding of class, which--in a U.S. context especially--remains that most vexed of social categories."--Evan Watkins, Pennsylvania State University

Sommario

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Class, Middle Class, and the Modalities of Labor

2. The Burden of Toil: Sister Carrie as Urban Pastoral

3. Willa Cather and the Ambivalence of Hierarchy

4. New Frontiers in Hollywood: Mobility and Desire in The Day of the Locust

5. Into the 1950s: Fiction in a Age of Consensus

Postscript: The Insistence of Class and the Framing of Culture in the American Scene

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Info autore

Robert Seguin

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Robert Seguin
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 20.06.2001
• EAN: 9780822326700
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2670-0
• Pagine: 224
• Dimensioni: 154 mm x 230 mm x 17 mm
• Peso: 367 g
• Serie: New Americanists
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese