Vital contact
Subtitle: downclassing journeys in American literature from Herman Melville to Richard Wright
By: by Patrick Chura.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism.; Social problems in literature.; Literature and society -- United States.; Passing (Identity) in literature.; Social classes in literature.; Working class in literature.; Poor in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: ix; label: Chapter One
title: Vital Contact
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter Two
title: "Resident Gentry" in Melville, Hawthorne, Jewett, James, and Howells
pagenum: 19; label: Chapter Three
title: Ernest Poole, Max Eastman, and the Legend of John Reed
pagenum: 59; label: Chapter Four
title: Upton Sinclair's Coal War and Dilemmas of Class Transvestiture
pagenum: 89; label: Chapter Five
title: Spiritual Adventures of Social Workers in Eugene O'Neill, Elia Peattie, and Clara Laughlin
pagenum: 117; label: Chapter Six
title: The Genteel Radical in the "Years Between": Sinclair's Oil! and Boston
pagenum: 147; label: Chapter Seven
title: "Alternative Initiatives" of Dos Passos, Steinbeck, and Wright
pagenum: 177; title: Notes
pagenum: 203; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 223; title: Index
pagenum: 235