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Around quitting time : work and middle-class fantasy in American fiction / Robert Seguin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seguin, Robert, 1963-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- New Americanists.
- New Americanists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Middle class in literature.
- Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
- Literature and society.
- Class consciousness in literature.
- Working class in literature.
- Social change in literature.
- Fantasy in literature.
- Work in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (222 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612903670
- 9781282903678
- 1282903675
- 9780822380818
- 0822380811
- OCLC:
- 850212034
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