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

Seguin, Robert, 1963-

Around quitting time work and middle-class fantasy in American fiction / [electronic resource] Robert Seguin. - Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001. - 210 p. - New Americanists . - e-Duke books scholarly collection. New Americanists. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.




American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Middle class in literature.
Literature and society--History--United States--20th century.
Class consciousness in literature.
Working class in literature.
Social change in literature.
Fantasy in literature.
Work in literature.


Electronic books.

PS374.W64 / S44 2001

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