{"product_id":"the-working-class-in-american-literature-9781476673066","title":"The Working Class in American Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Literary texts are artifacts of their time and ideologies. This book collection explores the working class in American literature from the colonial to the contemporary period through a critical lens which addresses the real problems of approaching class through economics. Significantly, this book moves the analysis of working-class literature away from the Marxist focus on the relationship between class and the means of production and applies an innovative concept of class based on the sociological studies of humans and society first championed by Max Weber. Of primary concern is the construction of class separation through the concept of in-grouping\/out grouping. This book builds upon the theories established in John F. Lavelle''s \u003ci\u003eBlue Collar, Theoretically: A Post-Marxist Approach to Working Class Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (McFarland, 2011) and puts them into practice by examining a diverse set of texts that reveal the complexity of class relations in American society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\t\u003cbr\u003eJohn F. Lavelle\t1\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eJohn F. Lavelle\t3\u003cbr\u003eThe \"giddy ­hows-wife\" Revealed: Classifying Humor in Sarah Kemble Knight's The Journal of Madame Knight\t\u003cbr\u003eTeresa M. Coronado\t13\u003cbr\u003eTwain's Antithetical Discourses in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer\t\u003cbr\u003eJohn F. Lavelle\t28\u003cbr\u003eViolence, Labor and Collective Action in William Dean Howells' A Hazard of New Fortunes\t\u003cbr\u003eDebbie Lelekis\t47\u003cbr\u003eWriting the Spectacle of the Human Zoo: Literary Slumming and the Animalized Other in Maggie, A Girl of the Streets\t\u003cbr\u003eKailey Havelock\t63\u003cbr\u003eSocial Radicalism in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio\t\u003cbr\u003eDeborah Giggle\t80\u003cbr\u003eLosing Control: Contrasting Identity Constructs in Jean Toomer's Cane\t\u003cbr\u003eCharlene Taylor Evans\t100\u003cbr\u003e\"One had to have castes\": Class, Culture and Ideology in American Tragedy\t\u003cbr\u003eAdam Nemmers\t121\u003cbr\u003eThe Sun Also Rises for Some: Hemingway's Exploration of the Ideologies of Social Class in The Sun Also Rises\t\u003cbr\u003eJohn F. Lavelle and Debbie Lelekis\t141\u003cbr\u003eAccidents of Birth: A Class Study of Faulkner's Colonel John Satoris, Emily Grierson and Abner Snopes\t\u003cbr\u003eMichael J. Finnegan\t157\u003cbr\u003eThe Root and the Link: Talismans of ­Class-Consciousness in Douglass' Narrative and Ellison's Invisible Man\t\u003cbr\u003eMark Henderson\t169\u003cbr\u003eHaunted Privilege: Uncanny Estates in Flannery O'Connor and Shirley Jackson\t\u003cbr\u003eJason Marc Harris\t182\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\t211\u003cbr\u003eIndex\t213","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040437403991,"sku":"9781476673066","price":30.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476673066.jpg?v=1750946743","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-working-class-in-american-literature-9781476673066","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}