Robert Seguin

Around Quitting Time

Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 162mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780822326755
• ISBN-10: 0822326752
• Artikelnr.: 22792205

Autorenporträt

Robert Seguin

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Class, Middle Class, and the Modalities of Labor
2. The Burden of Toil: Sister Carrie as Urban Pastoral
3. Willa Cather and the Ambivalence of Hierarchy
4. New Frontiers in Hollywood: Mobility and Desire in The Day of the Locust
5. Into the 1950s: Fiction in a Age of Consensus
Postscript: The Insistence of Class and the Framing of Culture in the
American Scene
Notes
Bibliography
Index