Overview

Literary texts are artifacts of their time and ideologies. This book collection explores the working class in American literature from the colonial to the contemporary period through a critical lens which addresses the real problems of approaching class through economics. Significantly, this book moves the analysis of working-class literature away from the Marxist focus on the relationship between class and the means of production and applies an innovative concept of class based on the sociological studies of humans and society first championed by Max Weber. Of primary concern is the construction of class separation through the concept of in-grouping/out grouping. This book builds upon the theories established in John F. Lavelle's Blue Collar, Theoretically: A Post-Marxist Approach to Working Class Literature (McFarland, 2011) and puts them into practice by examining a diverse set of texts that reveal the complexity of class relations in American society.

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Author:   John F. Lavelle ,  Debbie Lelekis
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9781476673066

ISBN 10:   1476673063
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   21 September 2021
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface John F. Lavelle Introduction John F. Lavelle The “giddy ­hows-wife” Revealed: Classifying Humor in Sarah Kemble Knight’s The Journal of Madame Knight Teresa M. Coronado Twain’s Antithetical Discourses in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer John F. Lavelle Violence, Labor and Collective Action in William Dean Howells’ A Hazard of New Fortunes Debbie Lelekis Writing the Spectacle of the Human Zoo: Literary Slumming and the Animalized Other in Maggie, A Girl of the Streets Kailey Havelock Social Radicalism in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio Deborah Giggle Losing Control: Contrasting Identity Constructs in Jean Toomer’s Cane Charlene Taylor Evans “One had to have castes”: Class, Culture and Ideology in American Tragedy Adam Nemmers The Sun Also Rises for Some: Hemingway’s Exploration of the Ideologies of Social Class in The Sun Also Rises John F. Lavelle and Debbie Lelekis Accidents of Birth: A Class Study of Faulkner’s Colonel John Satoris, Emily Grierson and Abner Snopes Michael J. Finnegan The Root and the Link: Talismans of ­Class-Consciousness in Douglass’ Narrative and Ellison’s Invisible Man Mark Henderson Haunted Privilege: Uncanny Estates in Flannery O’Connor and Shirley Jackson Jason Marc Harris About the Contributors Index

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John F. Lavelle is an associate professor at Florida Tech where he teaches English, literature, and creative writing. He is the author of one other scholarly book and has published articles and papers in academic journals on the interception of class and literature. Debbie Lelekis is an associate professor teaching literature and writing classes at Florida Tech. Her scholarly research focuses on the notion of community in nineteenth and early twentieth century American fiction.

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