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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class offers a comprehensive and fresh assessment of the cultural impact of class in literature, analyzing various innovative, interdisciplinary approaches of textual analysis and intersections of literature, including class subjectivities, mental health, gender and queer studies, critical race theory, quantitative and scientific methods, and transnational perspectives in literary analysis. Utilizing these new methods and interdisciplinary maps from field-defining essayists, students will become aware of ways to bring these elusive texts into their own writing as one of the parallel perspectives through which to view literature. This volume will provide students with an insight into the history of the intersections of class, theory of class and invisibility in literature, and new trends in exploring class in literature. These multidimensional approaches to literature will be a crucial resource for undergraduate and graduate students becoming familiar with class analysis, and will offer seasoned scholars the most significant critical approaches in class studies.

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Author:   Gloria McMillan
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9780367442118

ISBN 10:   0367442116
Pages:   472
Publication Date:   02 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction to The Routledge Literature and Class Companion Part I: History of the Intersections of Class Intersections of Class, Race, and Gender in Australian Indigenous Literature Sarah Attfield Class Shifts in Yuan Dynasty China Kacey Evilsizor Victorian Socialist Obituaries and the Politics of Cross-Class Community Ingrid Hanson Social Class and Devastated Land in Yang Dantao's Science Fiction Hua Li New York Literature and Social Space: The Tenement and the Street Adam R. McKee Elena Ferrante's Fiction of Problematized Providing and Protecting Cristina Migliaccio Dickens and Society: Can Dickens’s ""Uppers"" Change Their Minds? Peter J. Ponzio Songs of Synthesis: Poetics of Working-Class Revolt Zara Richter The Urban Spatiality of Street Literature Mattius Rischard Allegories of Proletarian Literature: Boyden, Bontemps, and Halper in the Depression Era William Solomon Angry Young Men and The Loss of Empire Stanley Wilkin Part II: Class in Literature: Intermittently (In)visible Race and Class as Catalysts for Obscuring a Novel Aaron Barlow Productive Disruption in the Working-Class Poetry of Jan Beatty, Sandra Cisneros, and Wanda Coleman Carrie Conners Rhetorical Voice and Class in Adichie's ""Subaltern"" Fiction Kristy Liles Crawley Dickens's Fairness in Describing Italian Complexity Germana Cubeta The British Working-Class Bildungsroman during the Great Depression Charles Ferrall Enunciations and Avoidances of Capital and Class in the Evolution of Irish Theatre Eamonn Jordan Class and Upper-Middle-Class Consciousness in Katherine Mansfield’s Stories Peter R. Kuch Writing Working-Class Irish Mothers Heather Laird Social Class and Mental Health in Contemporary British Fiction Simon Lee Penny Fiction and Chartism: A Literature's Exclusion from the Canon Rebecca Nesvet Abject Capitalism as the Sight and Dead Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Novels Matthew L. Reznicek ​ Part III: New Multifactor Trends in Literature Theory Ta-Nehisi Coates Demystifies American Class and Race Mythology Marleen S. Barr Desiring Weird Bodies: Class Subjectivities in Hardy, Wilde, and Woolf Rebecca W. Boylan Oral Storytelling as a Transnational Aesthetic in the Industrial Novel Erin Cheslow Class, Race, and Social Stratification in British Theatre Between 1950s and 2000s Önder Ḉakirtaş Pecuniary Emulation, Anomie, and the Alleged Metropolitan Conversion of Sister Carrie Wendy Graham Power and the Dialectics of Twentieth Century Science Fiction Christopher Loughlin The Strange Case of Dystopian Fiction Patricia McManus On Capital and Class with Balzac, James, and Fitzgerald Erik S. Roraback Darwinian Ideas and Marxian Idealism in Austen, Twain, Yeats, Camus, and Ishiguro Nancy Ann Watanabe The ""Metaholon"" Method for Class-Based Literature Analysis Agnieszka M. Will Index

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Gloria McMillan is Research Associate in the Department of English at the University of Arizona. Her dissertation won the Florence Hemley Schneider Prize in Women’s Studies. She has taught college writing for over 27 years, has a number of produced plays (Universe Symphony, Pass the Ectoplasm), and has published a novel (The Blue Maroon Murder) and journal articles. She edited the multi-disciplinary essay collection Orbiting Ray Bradbury’s Mars (2012).

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