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.