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Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature (Class : Culture)
Eric Schocket
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Description for Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature (Class : Culture)
Hardcover. Analyzes how various American authors have reified class, consciously or unconsciously, through their writing, spanning from the first influx of industrialism in the 1850s to the end of the Great Depression in the early 1940s. This work is useful for scholars and students of American literature and culture. Series: Class: Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 photographs, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
Vanishing Moments analyzes how various American authors have reified class, consciously or unconsciously, through their writing, spanning from the first influx of industrialism in the 1850s to the end of the Great Depression in the early 1940s. Eric Schocket uses this history to document America's long engagement with the problem of class stratification, and demonstrates how deeply America's desire to deny the presence of class has marked even its most labor-conscious cultural texts. Schocket offers careful readings of works by Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, William Dean Howells, Jack London, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Muriel Rukeyser, and Langston Hughes, among ... Read more
Vanishing Moments analyzes how various American authors have reified class, consciously or unconsciously, through their writing, spanning from the first influx of industrialism in the 1850s to the end of the Great Depression in the early 1940s. Eric Schocket uses this history to document America's long engagement with the problem of class stratification, and demonstrates how deeply America's desire to deny the presence of class has marked even its most labor-conscious cultural texts. Schocket offers careful readings of works by Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, William Dean Howells, Jack London, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Muriel Rukeyser, and Langston Hughes, among ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Class: Culture
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472115693
SKU
V9780472115693
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About Eric Schocket
Eric Schocket is Associate Professor of American Literature at Hampshire College.
Reviews for Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature (Class : Culture)
An important book containing many brilliant arguments - hard-hitting and original. Schocket demonstrates a sophisticated acquaintance with issues within the working-class studies movement. - Barbara Foley, Rutgers University