Narrating Class in American Fiction

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-349-37627-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 271 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 416 g

Reihe: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

Focusing on American fiction from 1850-1940, Narrating Class in American Fiction offers close readings in the context of literary and political history to detail the uneasy attention American authors gave to class in their production of social identities.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dow, W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Whitman's 1855 Leaves of Grass: 'Hard Work and Blood' Class and the Performative in Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills and Steven Crane's Maggie Body Tramping, Class and Masculine Extremes: Jack London's The People of the Abyss 'Always Your Heart': Class Designs in Jean Toomer's Cane Meridel Le Sueur's Salute to Spring: 'A Movement Up Which All Are Moving' Class, Work and New Races: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Agnes Smedley's Daughter of Earth Class 'Truths' in James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Über Autor(innen)

WILLIAM DOW is Assistant Professor, The American University of Paris and Maitre de Conferences, The University of Valenciennes, France.