1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class
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 becoming familiar with class analysis, and will offer seasoned scholars the most significant critical approaches in class studies.
Introduction to The Routledge Literature and Class Companion
Part I: History of the Intersections of Class
Intersections of Class, Race, and Gender in Australian Indigenous Literature
Sarah Attfield
Class Shifts in Yuan Dynasty China
Kacey Evilsizor
Victorian Socialist Obituaries and the Politics of Cross-Class Community
Ingrid Hanson
Social Class and Devastated Land in Yang Dantao's Science Fiction
Hua Li
New York Literature and Social Space: The Tenement and the Street
Adam R. McKee
Elena Ferrante's Fiction of Problematized Providing and Protecting
Cristina Migliaccio
Dickens and Society: Can Dickens’s "Uppers" Change Their Minds?
Peter J. 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
Part II: 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 in Adichie's "Subaltern" Fiction
Kristy Liles Crawley
Dickens's Fairness in Describing Italian Complexity
Germana Cubeta
The British Working-Class Bildungsroman during the Great Depression
Charles Ferrall
Enunciations and Avoidances 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 as the Sight and Dead Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Novels
Matthew L. Reznicek
Part III: New Multifactor Trends in Literature Theory
Ta-Nehisi Coates Demystifies American Class and Race Mythology
Marleen S. Barr
Desiring Weird Bodies: 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 and 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
Darwinian Ideas and Marxian Idealism in Austen, Twain, Yeats, Camus, and Ishiguro
Nancy Ann Watanabe
The "Metaholon" Method for Class-Based Literature Analysis
Agnieszka M. Will
Index
Biography
Gloria McMillan is Research Associate in the Department of English at the University of Arizona. Her dissertation won the Florence Hemley Schneider Prize in Women’s Studies. She has taught college writing for over 27 years, has a number of produced plays (Universe Symphony, Pass the Ectoplasm), and has published a novel (The Blue Maroon Murder) and journal articles. She edited the multi-disciplinary essay collection Orbiting Ray Bradbury’s Mars (2012).
