Around quitting time [electronic resource] : work and middle-class fantasy in American fiction / Robert Seguin.

By: Seguin, Robert, 1963-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: e-Duke books scholarly collection | New AmericanistsPublication details: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001Description: 210 pSubject(s): American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Middle class in literature | Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Class consciousness in literature | Working class in literature | Social change in literature | Fantasy in literature | Work in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.LOC classification: PS374.W64 | S44 2001Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Class, middle class, and the modalities of labor -- The burden of toil: Sister Carrie as urban pastoral -- Willa Cather and the ambivalence of hierarchy -- New frontiers in Hollywood: mobility and desire in the Day of the locust -- Into the 1950s: fiction in the age of consensus -- Postscript: the insistence of class and the framing of culture in the American scene.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and index.

Class, middle class, and the modalities of labor -- The burden of toil: Sister Carrie as urban pastoral -- Willa Cather and the ambivalence of hierarchy -- New frontiers in Hollywood: mobility and desire in the Day of the locust -- Into the 1950s: fiction in the age of consensus -- Postscript: the insistence of class and the framing of culture in the American scene.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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