Around quitting time: work and middle-class fantasy in American fiction

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 i...

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Main Author: Seguin, Robert 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] Duke University Press 2001
Series:New Americanists
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and index
Physical Description:210 p 24 cm
ISBN:9780822380818
0822380811

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