Narrating class in American fiction /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Series: | American literature readings in the 21st century.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- "Aways 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
- Conclusion: Going back to class.