Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature
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- Synopsis
- Schocket examines the image of the working class in American literature from the first appearance of industrial fiction in the 1850s to the rise and fall of proletarian literature in the 1930s. A theoretical introductory chapter is followed by five historically framed readings of groups of texts. These include the late antebellum era and America's earliest labor narratives within the context of slave labor; strikes and other labor actions in the 1880s as a collective discourse; 19th-century political culture and labor narratives; the high modernism of the 1910s; and the proletarian culture movement of the 1930s. Among the texts discussed are works by Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, William Dean Howells, Jack London, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Muriel Rukeyser, and Langston Hughes. Schocket (1966-2006) was a professor of American literature at Hampshire College. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
- Copyright:
- 2006
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780472025701
- Publisher:
- The University of Michigan Press
- Date of Addition:
- 02/09/12
- Copyrighted By:
- the University of Michigan
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.