White Collar Fictions
Class and Social Representation in American Literature, 1885-1925
Title Details
Pages: 340
Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 08/01/2010
ISBN: 9-780-8203-3697-8
List Price: $34.95
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White Collar Fictions
Class and Social Representation in American Literature, 1885-1925
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An exemplary work of ‘new’ literary history that is certain to be welcomed both by scholars of American literature and by those concerned with reimagining the interdisciplinarity of American Studies.
—John W. Crowley
[A] splendid exploration of turn-of-the-century literary treatments of and by ‘the new middle classes.’
—American Literary Scholarship
The goals of a book such as White Collar Fictions are both narrowly literary and broadly cultural: to recover a neglected portion of our literary heritage and teach us to read it again and to make us aware of the ‘cultural solubility’ of writing, by which it helps to form our notion of ‘common sense,’ in this case our understanding of the middle class. The book succeeds magnificently in both respects. . . . An example of the new American cultural studies at their best.
—Modern Language Review
Wilson’s method produces a rich analysis of the relations between class, fiction, and culture. . . . A provocative study of American literature and culture at the turn of the century and a model of interdisciplinary scholarship.
—American Literature