The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class
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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class offers a comprehensive and fresh assessment of the cultural impact of class in literature, analyzing various innovative, interdisciplinary approaches of textual analysis and intersections of literature, including class subjectivities, mental health, gender and queer studies, critical race theory, quantitative and scientific methods, and transnational perspectives in literary analysis.
Utilizing these new methods and interdisciplinary maps from field-defining essayists, students will become aware of ways to bring these elusive texts into their own writing as one of the parallel perspectives through which to view literature. This volume will provide students with an insight into the history of the intersections of class, theory of class and invisibility in literature, and new trends in exploring class in literature. These multidimensional approaches to literature will be a crucial resource for undergraduate and graduate students to become familiar with class analysis and offer seasoned scholars the most significant critical approaches in class studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction to The Routledge Literature and Class Companion
Theme One: History of the Intersections of Class
Intersections of Class, Race and Gender in Australian Indigenous Literature
Sarah Attfield
Changing Social Classes in Yuan Dynasty China
Kacey Evilsizor
Victorian Socialist Obituaries and the Politics of Cross-class Community
Ingrid Hanson
Social Class and Devastated Land
Hua Li
New York Literature and Social Space
Adam R. McKee
Problematized Providing and Protecting
Cristina Migliaccio
Dickens and Society: Can Dickens’ "Uppers" change their Minds?
Peter Ponzio
Songs of Synthesis: Poetics of Working-Class Revolt
Zara Richter
The Urban Spatiality of Street Literature
Mattius Rischard
Allegories of Proletarian Literature: Boyden, Bontemps, and Halper in the Depression Era William Solomon
Angry Young Men and The Loss of Empire
Stanley Wilkin
Theme Two: Class in Literature: Intermittently (In)visible
Race and Class as Catalysts for Obscuring a Novel
Aaron Barlow
Productive Disruption in the Working-Class Poetry of Jan Beatty, Sandra Cisneros, and Wanda Coleman
Carrie Conners
Rhetorical Voice and Class
Kristy Crawley
Dickens and Italian Complexity
Germana Cubeta
The British Working-Class Bildungsroman during the Great Depression
Charles Ferrall
Enunciations and Dis-articulations of Capital and Class in the Evolution of Irish Theatre Eamonn Jordan
Class and Upper-Middle-Class Consciousness in Katherine Mansfield’s Stories
Peter R. Kuch
Writing Working-Class Irish Mothers
Heather Laird
Social Class and Mental Health in Contemporary British Fiction
Simon Lee
Penny Fiction and Chartism: A Literature's Exclusion from the Canon
Rebecca Nesvet
Abject Capitalism, Sight and Dead Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Novels
Matthew L. Reznicek
Theme Three: New Multifactor Trends in Literature Theory
American Class and Race Mythology
Marleen S. Barr
Class Subjectivities in Hardy, Wilde, and Woolf
Rebecca W. Boylan
Oral Storytelling as a Transnational Aesthetic in the Industrial Novel
Erin Cheslow
Class, Race and Social Stratification in British Theatre Between 1950s-2000s
Önder Ḉakirtaş
Pecuniary Emulation, Anomie, and the Alleged Metropolitan Conversion of Sister Carrie Wendy Graham
Power and the Dialectics of Twentieth Century Science Fiction
Christopher Loughlin
The Strange Case of Dystopian Fiction
Patricia McManus
On Capital and Class with Balzac, James, and Fitzgerald
Erik S. Roraback
Marxian Idealism in Austen, Twain, Yeats, Camus, and Ishiguro
Nancy Ann Watanabe
The "Metaholon" Method for Class-Based Literature Analysis
Agnieszka M. Will
Index
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Biography
Gloria McMillan is a Research Associate in the Department of English at the University of Arizona. Her dissertation won the Florence Hemley Schneider Prize for Women’s Studies scholarship. She has taught college writing for over 27 years, has a number of produced plays (Universe Symphony, Pass the Ectoplasm), a published novel (The Blue Maroon Murder), and journal articles. She edited the multi-disciplinary essay collection Orbiting Ray Bradbury’s Mars (2012).