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Vanishing Moments : Class and American Literature.

Schocket, Eric.

Vanishing Moments : Class and American Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (319 pages) - Class : Culture Series . - Class : Culture Series .

Intro -- 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 -- Notes -- Index.

9780472025701


Working class in literature.


Electronic books.

PS217

810.9/355

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