03138nam 22007934a 450 991078049930332120080321091817.01-282-90367-597866129036700-8223-8081-110.1515/9780822380818(CKB)111087028002186(EBL)1167468(OCoLC)850212034(SSID)ssj0000105673(PQKBManifestationID)11988313(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000105673(PQKBWorkID)10105281(PQKB)10269367(OCoLC)191222130(MiAaPQ)EBC1167468(OCoLC)1139388598(MdBmJHUP)muse79400191222130(DE-B1597)554522(DE-B1597)9780822380818(OCoLC)1167397283(EXLCZ)9911108702800218620080125d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAround quitting time[electronic resource] work and middle-class fantasy in American fiction /Robert SeguinDurham [N.C.] Duke University Press20011 online resource (222 p.)New AmericanistsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8223-2670-1 0-8223-2675-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and index.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.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.New Americanists.American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismMiddle class in literatureLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryClass consciousness in literatureWorking class in literatureSocial change in literatureFantasy in literatureWork in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Middle class in literature.Literature and societyHistoryClass consciousness in literature.Working class in literature.Social change in literature.Fantasy in literature.Work in literature.813/.509355Seguin Robert1963-1565679NcDNcDBOOK9910780499303321Around quitting time3835576UNINA