Narrating class in American fiction
By: William Dow.
Series: American literature readings in the twenty-first century
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Social classes in literature; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Working class in literature
Table of contents: title: Whitman's 1855 Leaves of Grass: 'hard work and blood'; title: Class and the performative in Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the iron mills, and Steven Crane's Maggie; title: Body tramping, class, and masculine extremes: Jack London's The people of the abyss; title: 'Aways your heart': class designs in Jean Toomer's Cane; title: Meridel le Sueur's Salute to spring: 'a movement up which all are moving'; title: Class, work, and new races: Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God and Agnes Smedley's Daughter of earth; title: Class 'truths' in James Agee's Let us now praise famous men.