The Routledge companion to literature and class / edited by Gloria McMillan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McMillan, Gloria (Professor), editor.

Series:

Routledge companions to literature series.

Routledge literature companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes in literature.

Class consciousness in literature.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

"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 in becoming familiar with class analysis, and offers seasoned scholars the most significant critical approaches in class studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class

Part I History of the Intersections of Class

Chapter 1 Intersections of Class, Race, and Gender in Australian Indigenous Literature

Chapter 2 Class Shifts in Yuan Dynasty China

Chapter 3 Victorian Socialist Obituaries and the Politics of Cross-Class Community

Chapter 4 Social Class and Devastated Land in Yang Dantao's Science Fiction

Chapter 5 New York Literature and Social Space: The Tenement and the Street

Chapter 6 Elena Ferrante's Fiction of Problematized Providing and Protecting

Chapter 7 Dickens and Society: Can Dickens's "Uppers" Change Their Minds?

Chapter 8 Songs of Synthesis: Poetics of Working-Class Revolt

Chapter 9 The Urban Spatiality of Street Literature

Chapter 10 Allegories of Proletarian Literature: Boyden, Bontemps, and Halper in the Depression Era

Chapter 11 Angry Young Men and the Loss of Empire

Part II Class in Literature: Intermittently (In)visible

Chapter 12 Race and Class as Catalysts for Obscuring a Novel

Chapter 13 Productive Disruption in the Working-Class Poetry of Jan Beatty, Sandra Cisneros, and Wanda Coleman

Chapter 14 Rhetorical Voice and Class in Adichie's "Subaltern" Fiction

Chapter 15 Dickens's Fairness in Describing Italian Complexity

Chapter 16 The British Working-Class Bildungsroman during the Great Depression

Chapter 17 Enunciations and Avoidances of Capital and Class in Evolving Irish Theatre

Chapter 18 Class and Upper-Middle-Class Consciousness in Katherine Mansfield's Stories

Chapter 19 Writing Working-Class Irish Mothers

Chapter 20 Social Class and Mental Health in Contemporary British Fiction.

Chapter 21 Penny Fiction and Chartism: A Literature's Exclusion from the Canon

Chapter 22 Abject Capitalism as the Sight of Dead Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Novels

Part III New Multifactor Trends in Literature Theory

Chapter 23 Ta-Nehisi Coates Demystifies American Class and Race Mythology

Chapter 24 Desiring Weird Bodies: Class Subjectivities in Hardy, Wilde, and Woolf

Chapter 25 Oral Storytelling as a Transnational Aesthetic in the Industrial Novel

Chapter 26 Class, Race, and Social Stratification in British Theatre between the 1950s and 2000s

Chapter 27 Pecuniary Emulation, Anomie, and the Alleged Metropolitan Conversion of Sister Carrie

Chapter 28 Power and the Dialectics of Twentieth-Century Science Fiction

Chapter 29 The Strange Case of Dystopian Fiction

Chapter 30 On Capital and Class with Balzac, James, and Fitzgerald

Chapter 31 Darwinian Ideas and Marxian Idealism in Austen, Twain, Yeats, Camus, and Ishiguro

Chapter 32 The "Metaholon" Method for Class-Based Literary Analysis

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-300835-6

1-000-41391-8

1-003-00835-6

1-000-41397-7

9781003008354

OCLC:

1261364609