Patrick Chura charts the downclassing processes in works of canonical nineteenth-century American authors, including Melville, Hawthorne, James, Howells and Jewett. He undertakes an original analysis of John Reed's involvement with the 1913 Paterson silk workers' strike as a context for understanding Ernest Poole's fictionalization of the strike in his novel, "The Harbor". In other richly historicized chapters, he analyzes distillations of class radicalism in several works by Upton Sinclair, in the early drama of Eugene O'Neill and in feminist novels of the 1910s by Elia Peattie and Clara Laughlin. The concluding chapter looks at sophisticated treatments of 'vital contact' in fiction of the 1930s by Dos Passos, Steinbeck and Richard Wright. This book presents Americanists with important new ways of thinking about various forms of class identification as they developed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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The term "vital contact" has not achieved a particularly wide currency in either historical or literary scholarship. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
girl stunt reporters, class transvestism, social amalgamation, proletarian journey, vital contact, class interloper, strike pageant, class descent, class cooperation, proletarian experience, silk strike, hairy ape, radical novel, lower class life, working class subject Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John Reed, King Coal, New York, Dos Passos, Hull House, Paterson Pageant, The Coal War, Hal Warner, The Hairy Ape, Veiled Lady, Upton Sinclair, Eugene O'Neill, Mildred Douglas, United States, World War, Jane Addams, Mike Gold, The Blithedale Romance, Floyd Dell, Madison Square Garden, Mary Burke, North Valley, Jack London, Moby Dick, Reed Club New!
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The term "vital contact" has not achieved a particularly wide currency in either historical or literary scholarship. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
girl stunt reporters, class transvestism, social amalgamation, proletarian journey, vital contact, class interloper, strike pageant, class descent, class cooperation, proletarian experience, silk strike, hairy ape, radical novel, lower class life, working class subject Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John Reed, King Coal, New York, Dos Passos, Hull House, Paterson Pageant, The Coal War, Hal Warner, The Hairy Ape, Veiled Lady, Upton Sinclair, Eugene O'Neill, Mildred Douglas, United States, World War, Jane Addams, Mike Gold, The Blithedale Romance, Floyd Dell, Madison Square Garden, Mary Burke, North Valley, Jack London, Moby Dick, Reed Club New!
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- King Coal by Upton Sinclair on 20 pages
- Moby Dick (Usborne Classics) by H Melville on 11 pages
- Moby Dick (French Edition) by Herman Melville on 11 pages
- Moby-Dick, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions) by Herman Melville on 11 pages
- The People Of The Abyss by Jack London on 10 pages
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