Seguin / Pease Around Quitting Time

Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8081-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 221 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seguin, Robert

Pease, Donald E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Class, Middle Class, and the Modalities of Labor

2. The Burden of Toil: Sister Carrie as Urban Pastoral

3. Willa Cather and the Ambivalence of Hierarchy

4. New Frontiers in Hollywood: Mobility and Desire in The Day of the Locust

5. Into the 1950s: Fiction in a Age of Consensus

Postscript: The Insistence of Class and the Framing of Culture in the American Scene

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Seguin is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York at Brockport.