Title Class and the Making of American Literature : Created Unequal

Published Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 24 Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 24. Contents pt. 1. Class in early American literature -- pt. 2. Class in the Antebellum period -- pt. 3. Class in the gilded age and the progressive period -- pt. 4. Class in the earl to mid-twentieth century -- pt. 5. Class in contemporary American literature -- pt. 6. Teaching class Summary "This book refocuses current understandings of American Literature from the revolutionary period to the present-day through an analytical accounting of class, reestablishing a foundation for discussions of class in American culture. American Studies scholars have explored the ways in which American society operates through inequality and modes of social control, focusing primarily on issues of status group identities involving race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and disability. The essays in this volume focus on both the historically changing experience of class and its continuing hold on American life. The collection visits popular as well as canonical literature, recognizing that class is constructed in and mediated by the affective and the sensational. It analyzes class division, class difference, and class identity in American culture, enabling readers to grasp why class matters, as well as the economic, social, and political matter of class. Redefining the field of American literary cultural studies and asking it to rethink its preoccupation with race and gender as primary determinants of identity, contributors explore the disciplining of the laboring body and of the emotions, the political role of the novel in contesting the limits of class power and authority, and the role of the modern consumer culture in both blurring and sharpening class divisions"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- History and criticism. Social classes in literature. Group identity in literature. Working class authors -- United States Working class writings, American -- History and criticism Literature and society -- United States -- History LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. American literature Group identity in literature Literature and society Social classes in literature Working class authors Working class writings, American United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 1306505356 9781306505352 0415822068 9780415822060 9780203556023 020355602X 9781136774249 1136774246 9781136774386 1136774386 9781136774317 1136774319 9781138547452 113854745X

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