Narrating class in American fiction /
Dow, William.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-261) and index.
Whitman's 1855 Leaves of grass : "hard work and blood" -- Class and the performative in Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the iron mills, and Steven Crane's Maggie -- Body tramping, class, and masculine extremes : Jack London's The people of the abyss -- "Aways your heart" : class designs in Jean Toomer's Cane -- Meridel Le Sueur's Salute to spring : "a movement up which all are moving" -- Class, work, and new races : Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God and Agnes Smedley's Daughter of earth -- Class "truths" in James Agee's Let us now praise famous men -- Conclusion: Going back to class.
American fiction
Social classes in literature.
American fiction
Working class in literature.