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Author Seguin, Robert, 1963-

Title Around quitting time [electronic resource] : work and middle-class fantasy in American fiction / Robert Seguin.

Imprint Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001.

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Description 210 p.
Series New Americanists
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
New Americanists.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and index.
Contents Class, middle class, and the modalities of labor -- The burden of toil: Sister Carrie as urban pastoral -- Willa Cather and the ambivalence of hierarchy -- New frontiers in Hollywood: mobility and desire in the Day of the locust -- Into the 1950s: fiction in the age of consensus -- Postscript: the insistence of class and the framing of culture in the American scene.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Middle class in literature.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Class consciousness in literature.
Working class in literature.
Social change in literature.
Fantasy in literature.
Work in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780822380818
0822380811
0822326752 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822326755 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822326701 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822326700 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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