Class and the Making of American Literature
Title | Class and the Making of American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Lawson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
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The Making of Americans
Title | The Making of Americans PDF eBook |
Author | Gertrude Stein |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 944 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Families |
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Class and the Making of American Literature
Title | Class and the Making of American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Lawson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | 9781136774386 |
"This book refocuses current understandings of American Literature from the revolutionary period to the present-day through an analytical accounting of class, reestablishing a foundation for discussions of class in American culture. American Studies scholars have explored the ways in which American society operates through inequality and modes of social control, focusing primarily on issues of status group identities involving race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and disability. The essays in this volume focus on both the historically changing experience of class and its continuing hold on American life. The collection visits popular as well as canonical literature, recognizing that class is constructed in and mediated by the affective and the sensational. It analyzes class division, class difference, and class identity in American culture, enabling readers to grasp why class matters, as well as the economic, social, and political matter of class. Redefining the field of American literary cultural studies and asking it to rethink its preoccupation with race and gender as primary determinants of identity, contributors explore the disciplining of the laboring body and of the emotions, the political role of the novel in contesting the limits of class power and authority, and the role of the modern consumer culture in both blurring and sharpening class divisions"--
Class and the Making of American Literature
Title | Class and the Making of American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Lawson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 306 |
Release | 2014-03-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1136774246 |
This book refocuses current understandings of American Literature from the revolutionary period to the present-day through an analytical accounting of class, reestablishing a foundation for discussions of class in American culture. American Studies scholars have explored the ways in which American society operates through inequality and modes of social control, focusing primarily on issues of status group identities involving race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and disability. The essays in this volume focus on both the historically changing experience of class and its continuing hold on American life. The collection visits popular as well as canonical literature, recognizing that class is constructed in and mediated by the affective and the sensational. It analyzes class division, class difference, and class identity in American culture, enabling readers to grasp why class matters, as well as the economic, social, and political matter of class. Redefining the field of American literary cultural studies and asking it to rethink its preoccupation with race and gender as primary determinants of identity, contributors explore the disciplining of the laboring body and of the emotions, the political role of the novel in contesting the limits of class power and authority, and the role of the modern consumer culture in both blurring and sharpening class divisions.
The Word in Black and White
Title | The Word in Black and White PDF eBook |
Author | Dana D. Nelson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN | 0195089278 |
Dana Nelson provides a study of the ways in which Anglo-American authors constructed "race" in their works from the time of the first British colonists through the period of the Civil War. She focuses on some eleven texts, ranging from widely-known to little-considered, that deal with the relations among Native, African, and Anglo-Americans, and places her readings in the historical, social, and material contexts of an evolving U.S. colonialism and internal imperialism. Nelson shows how a novel such as The Last of the Mohicans sought to reify the Anglo historical past and simultaneously suggested strategies that would serve Anglo-Americans against Native Americans as the frontier pushed farther west. Concluding her work with a reading of Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Nelson shows how that text undercuts the racist structures of the pre-Civil War period by positing a revised model of sympathy that authorizes alternative cultural perspectives and requires Anglo-Americans to question their own involvement with racism.
American Sensations
Title | American Sensations PDF eBook |
Author | Shelley Streeby |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 401 |
Release | 2002-05-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520223144 |
"American Sensations is an erudite and sweeping cultural history of the sensationalist literatures and mass cultures of the American 1848. It is the finest book yet written on the U.S.-Mexican War, and how it was central to the making and unmaking of U.S. mass culture, class, and racial formation."—José David Saldívar, author of Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies "A major work that will challenge current paradigms of nineteenth-century literature and culture. American Sensations brilliantly succeeds in remapping the volatile and shifting terrain of both national identity and literary history in the mid-nineteenth century."—Amy Kaplan, co-editor of Cultures of United States Imperialism
Modern American Literature
Title | Modern American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Morley |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2012-05-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0748630724 |
An incisive study of modern American literature, casting new light on its origins and themes. Exploring canonical American writers such as Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner alongside less familiar writers like Djuna Barnes and Susan Glaspell, the guide takes readers though a diverse literary landscape. It considers how the rise of the American metropolis contributed to the growth of American modernism; and also examines the ways in which regional writers responded to an accelerated American modernity. Taking in African American modernism, cultural and geographical exile, as well as developments in modern American drama, the guide introduces readers to current critical trends in modernist studies.