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Vital contact : downclassing journeys in American literature from Herman Melville to Richard Wright
- Title
- Vital contact : downclassing journeys in American literature from Herman Melville to Richard Wright / by Patrick Chura.
- Author
- Chura, Patrick, 1964-
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PS169.S57 C48 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 240 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Literary criticism and cultural theory
- Uniform Title
- Literary criticism and cultural theory.
- Subject
- American literature > History and criticism
- Social problems in literature
- Literature and society > United States
- Passing (Identity) in literature
- Social classes in literature
- Working class in literature
- Poor in literature
- American literature
- Literature and society
- Klassengesellschaft Motiv
- Sozialer Konflikt Motiv
- Sozialer Abstieg
- Literatur
- Arbeiterklasse
- Arbeiter Motiv
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-234) and index.
- Contents
- Vital contact -- Resident gentry in Melville, Hawthorne, Jewett, James and Howells -- Ernest Poole, Max Eastman and the legend of John Reed -- Upton Sinclair's Coal war and dilemmas of class transvestiture -- Spiritual adventures of social workers in Eugene O'Neill, Elia Peattie, and Clara Laughlin -- The genteel radical in the years between Sinclair's Oil! and Boston -- Alternative initiatives of Dos Passos, Steinbeck and Wright.
- ISBN
- 0415976146
- 9780415976145
- LCCN
- 2005024408
- 9780415976145
- OCLC
- ocm61448095
- 61448095
- SCSB-1381304
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library