Class
By: Gary Day.
Series: New critical idiom
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Marxist criticism.; Criticism -- Political aspects.; Canon (Literature); Social classes in literature.
Description: "This account traces the phenomenon of class from the medieval to the postmodern period, examining its relevance to literary and cultural analysis today. Drawing on historical, sociological and literary writings, Gary Day gives an account of class at different historical moments; shows the role of class in literary constructions of the social; examines the complex relations between "class" and "culture"; focuses attention on the role of class in constructions of "the literary" and "the canon"; and employs a revived and revised notion of class to critique recent theoretical movements."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.