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Narrating Class in American Fiction

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2008
ISBN
0230609821, 9780230609822
LCC
PS374.S68 D69 2009
Open Library ID
OL16839255M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1529649 bytes)
Series
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Pages
288\282
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

With a fresh and exciting perspective, Narrating Class in American Fiction offers close readings of American fiction from 1850-1940 in the context of literary and political history to illuminate the class discourses of its writers. Dow skillfully argues that the place of class in literary analysis has far to go in catching up to the panoply of “canonical” textual approaches. This book explores the uneasy attention American authors gave to class in their production of social identities and fills a gap in American literature scholarship.

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