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 Anthithetical 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 fo 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.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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