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

ISBN-13: 9781476673066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 220 str.

John F. Lavelle; Debbie Lelekis

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Preface
John F. Lavelle 1
Introduction
John F. Lavelle 3
The "giddy ­hows-wife" Revealed: Classifying Humor in Sarah Kemble Knight's The Journal of Madame Knight
Teresa M. Coronado 13
Twain's Antithetical Discourses in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
John F. Lavelle 28
Violence, Labor and Collective Action in William Dean Howells' A Hazard of New Fortunes
Debbie Lelekis 47
Writing the Spectacle of the Human Zoo: Literary Slumming and the Animalized Other in Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
Kailey Havelock 63
Social Radicalism in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
Deborah Giggle 80
Losing Control: Contrasting Identity Constructs in Jean Toomer's Cane
Charlene Taylor Evans 100
"One had to have castes": Class, Culture and Ideology in American Tragedy
Adam Nemmers 121
The Sun Also Rises for Some: Hemingway's Exploration of the Ideologies of Social Class in The Sun Also Rises
John F. Lavelle and Debbie Lelekis 141
Accidents of Birth: A Class Study of Faulkner's Colonel John Satoris, Emily Grierson and Abner Snopes
Michael J. Finnegan 157
The Root and the Link: Talismans of ­Class-Consciousness in Douglass' Narrative and Ellison's Invisible Man
Mark Henderson 169
Haunted Privilege: Uncanny Estates in Flannery O'Connor and Shirley Jackson
Jason Marc Harris 182
About the Contributors 211
Index 213