work and middle-class fantasy in American fiction /
Robert Seguin.
Durham [N.C.] :
Duke University Press,
2001.
1 online resource (210 pages)
New Americanists
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-200) and index.
Class, middle class, and the modalities of labor -- The burden of toil: Sister Carrie as urban pastoral -- Willa Cather and the ambivalence of hierarchy -- New frontiers in Hollywood: mobility and desire in the Day of the locust -- Into the 1950s: fiction in the age of consensus -- Postscript: the insistence of class and the framing of culture in the American scene.
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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.
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JSTOR
22573/ctv120gdq8
Around quitting time.
0822326752
American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Class consciousness in literature.
Fantasy in literature.
Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Middle class in literature.
Social change in literature.
Work in literature.
Working class in literature.
Changement social dans la littérature.
Classes moyennes dans la littérature.
Conscience de classe dans la littérature.
Fantasmes dans la littérature.
Littérature et société-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.
Roman américain-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.