Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-284) and index.
Contents:
1. The veil and the vision : reading class in American literature -- 2. "Discovering some new race" : "life in the iron mills," whiteness, and the genesis of the American labor narrative -- 3. Voices of insurgency : strikes, speech, and social realism -- 4. Middle-class melancholy and proletarian pain : the writer as class transvestite -- 5. Modernism and the aesthetics of management : T.S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein write labor literature -- 6. The fetish of being inside : proletarian texts and working-class bodies
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