1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBE600200056308

Titolo

Historia de la política exterior de España en la época contemporánea

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madrid : Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Secretaría General Técnica

Descrizione fisica

v. ; 25 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

(mm)

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963767103321

Autore

Seguin Robert <1963->

Titolo

Around quitting time : work and middle-class fantasy in American fiction / / Robert Seguin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2001

ISBN

9786612903670

9781282903678

1282903675

9780822380818

0822380811

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

New Americanists

Disciplina

813/.509355

813.509355

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Middle class in literature

Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century

Class consciousness in literature

Working class in literature

Social change in literature

Fantasy in literature

Work in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Class, middle class, and the modalities of labor -- The burden of toil: Sister Carrie as urban pastoral -- Willa Cather and the ambivalence of hierarchy -- New frontiers in Hollywood: mobility and desire in the Day of the locust -- Into the 1950s: fiction in the age of consensus -- Postscript: the insistence of class and the framing of culture in the American scene.

Sommario/riassunto

Posits social class as the American political unconscious, showing (in an analysis of 19th and 20th century novels) how class exerts pressure on the American cultural imagination, and claiming that what is desired is ultimately the liberation from work.