The Working Class in American Literature: Essays on Blue Collar Identity - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1476673063 ISBN 13 : 9781476673066

Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2021

Synopsis

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 Blue Collar, Theoretically: A Post-Marxist Approach to Working Class Literature (McFarland, 2011) and puts them into practice by examining a diverse set of texts that reveal the complexity of class relations in American society.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Debbie Lelekis is an associate professor teaching literature and writing classes at Florida Tech. Her scholarly research focuses on the notion of community in nineteenth and early twentieth century American fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McFarland & Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1476673063
• ISBN 13: 9781476673066
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Éditeur: Lavelle John F., Lelekis Debbie
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