Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. One Class, Middle Class, and the Modalities of Labor 1
5. Two The Burden of Toil: Sister Carrie as Urban Pastoral 19
6. Three Willa Cather and the Ambivalence of Hierarchy 57
7. Four New Frontiers in Hollywood: Mobility and Desire in The Day of the Locust 83
8. Five Into the 1950s: Fiction in the Age of Consensus 121
9. Postscript The Insistence of Class and the Framing of Culture in the American Scene 153
10. Notes 167
11. Bibliography 189
12. Index 201