LEADER 05527oam 2200733I 450 001 9910791307903321 005 20230126205253.0 010 $a1-136-77431-9 010 $a1-138-54745-X 010 $a0-203-55602-X 010 $a1-136-77424-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203556023 035 $a(CKB)2550000001247494 035 $a(EBL)1683230 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001136509 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11624428 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001136509 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11104116 035 $a(PQKB)11724372 035 $a(OCoLC)874100505 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1683230 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001247494 100 $a20180706d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aClass and the making of American literature $ecreated unequal /$fedited by Andrew Lawson 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (306 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature ;$v24 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-82206-8 311 $a1-306-50535-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; Part I Class in Early American Literature; 1 The Shays Rebellion in Literary History; 2 The Secret Witness: Thinking, and Not Thinking, about Servants in the Early American Novel; Part II Class in the Antebellum Period; 3 Cheap Reading and the Rise of Proletarian Print Culture; 4 The City Sketch: Writing Middle-Class Identity on the Streets of Antebellum New York; 5 Materializing Identification: Theorizing Class Identification in Nineteenth-Century Literary Texts 327 $aPart III Class in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Period6 Cultures of Class in the Gilded Age Labor Problem Novel; 7 "A Question of Meum and Tuum": The Civilization of the Commodity and the Maintenance of Inequality in Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman and The Marrow of Tradition; 8 Edith Wharton, Insider Information, and the "Inherited Obligations" of Class; Part IV Class in the Early to Mid-Twentieth Century; 9 From Class Imaginary to Cultural Revolution in Willa Cather; 10 Class Passing in the Fiction of the Great Depression: Breaking Boundaries through Fashion 327 $a11 Broken Frames: The World War II Novel and the Legibility of Class in the U.S. Historical ImaginationPart V Class in Contemporary American Literature; 12 The Future as Form: Undoing the Categorical Separation of Class and Gender in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia; 13 A Killing Greed: Capitalism, Casinos, and Violence in Contemporary Native American Literature; 14 "Not/One": The Poetics of the Multitude in Great Recession-Era America; Part VI Teaching Class; 15 Teaching U.S. Working Class Literature; or, Firing the Canon; Contributors; Index 330 $a"This book refocuses current understandings of American Literature from the revolutionary period to the present-day through an analytical accounting of class, reestablishing a foundation for discussions of class in American culture. American Studies scholars have explored the ways in which American society operates through inequality and modes of social control, focusing primarily on issues of status group identities involving race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and disability. The essays in this volume focus on both the historically changing experience of class and its continuing hold on American life. The collection visits popular as well as canonical literature, recognizing that class is constructed in and mediated by the affective and the sensational. It analyzes class division, class difference, and class identity in American culture, enabling readers to grasp why class matters, as well as the economic, social, and political matter of class. Redefining the field of American literary cultural studies and asking it to rethink its preoccupation with race and gender as primary determinants of identity, contributors explore the disciplining of the laboring body and of the emotions, the political role of the novel in contesting the limits of class power and authority, and the role of the modern consumer culture in both blurring and sharpening class divisions"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aRoutledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;$v24. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSocial classes in literature 606 $aGroup identity in literature 606 $aWorking class authors$zUnited States 606 $aWorking class writings, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSocial classes in literature. 615 0$aGroup identity in literature. 615 0$aWorking class authors 615 0$aWorking class writings, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory. 676 $a810.9/3552 686 $aLIT004020$aSOC050000$aLIT000000$2bisacsh 701 $aLawson$b Andrew$f1959 July 4-$01543029 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791307903321 996 $aClass and the making of American literature$93832798 997 $aUNINA