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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456079503321

Autore

Schocket Eric

Titolo

Vanishing Moments [[electronic resource] ] : Class and American Literature

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-59766-3

9786612597664

0-472-02570-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

Class : Culture

Disciplina

810.9/355

Soggetti

American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism

American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism

Working class in literature

Working class in literature - History and criticism - 19th century

American literature - History and criticism - 20th century

American literature

American Literature

English

Languages & Literatures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 The Veil and the Vision: Reading Class in American Literature; 2 "Discovering Some New Race": "Life in the Iron Mills," Whiteness, and the Genesis of the American Labor Narrative; 3 Voices of Insurgency: Strikes, Speech, and Social Realism; 4 Middle-Class Melancholy and Proletarian Pain: The Writer as Class Transvestite; 5 Modernism and the Aesthetics of Management: T. S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein Write Labor Literature; 6 The Fetish of Being Inside: Proletarian Texts and Working-Class Bodies; Notes; Index