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  1. Around quitting time
    work and middle-class fantasy in American fiction
    Author: Seguin, Robert
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham [N.C.]

    Posits social class as the American political unconscious, showing (in an analysis of 19th and 20th century novels) how class exerts pressure on the American cultural imagination, and claiming that what is desired is ultimately the liberation from... more

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    Posits social class as the American political unconscious, showing (in an analysis of 19th and 20th century novels) how class exerts pressure on the American cultural imagination, and claiming that what is desired is ultimately the liberation from work

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0822380811; 0822326752; 0822326701; 9780822380818; 9780822326755; 9780822326700
    Series: New Americanists
    Subjects: Social change in literature; Fantasy in literature; Work in literature; Middle class in literature; Literature and society; Class consciousness in literature; American fiction; Working class in literature; Class consciousness in literature; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (210 p), 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE Class, Middle Class, and the Modalities of Labor; TWO The Burden of Toil: Sister Carrie as Urban Pastoral; THREE Willa Cather and the Ambivalence of Hierarchy; FOUR New Frontiers in Hollywood: Mobility and Desire in The Day of the Locust; FIVE Into the 1950s: Fiction in the Age of Consensus; POSTSCRIPT The Insistence of Class and the Framing of Culture in the American Scene; Notes; Bibliography; Index