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Around Quitting Time
Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction
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Robert Seguin
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Edited by:
Donald E. Pease
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2001
About this book
Posits social class as the American political unconscious, showing (in an analysis of 19th and 20th century novels) how class exerts pressure on the American cultural imagination, and claiming that what is desired is ultimately the liberation from work.
Author / Editor information
Robert Seguin is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York at Brockport.
Reviews
“A remarkably positive achievement that contributes significantly to an understanding of quite a range of texts, to an understanding of specific currents of literary modernism, and most generally to an understanding of class, which—in a U.S. context especially—remains that most vexed of social categories.”—Evan Watkins, Pennsylvania State University
“Rob Seguin’s Around Quitting Time makes a major contribution to discussions of class formation in the United States. His original readings of novels by Dreiser, Cather, West, and Barth brilliantly pursue the ghostly tracks of social and cultural change as they are rendered in fine narrative and linguistic detail within the domain of the literary. His mode of reading is as significant as his argument about the "classlessness" of the middle class. Indeed, Seguin demonstrates in exemplary fashion that it is possible to attend to literature as a social and political force without neglecting the specificity of its aesthetic work.”—Jan Radway, Duke University
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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One Class, Middle Class, and the Modalities of Labor
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Two The Burden of Toil: Sister Carrie as Urban Pastoral
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Three Willa Cather and the Ambivalence of Hierarchy
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Four New Frontiers in Hollywood: Mobility and Desire in The Day of the Locust
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Five Into the 1950s: Fiction in the Age of Consensus
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Postscript The Insistence of Class and the Framing of Culture in the American Scene
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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June 20, 2001
eBook ISBN:
9780822380818
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