Around quitting time : work and middle-class fantasy in American fiction

Around quitting time : work and middle-class fantasy in American fiction /

Posits social class as the American political unconscious, showing (in an analysis of 19th and 20th century novels) how class exerts pressure on the American cultural imagination, and claiming that what is desired is ultimately the liberation from work.

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Main Author: Seguin, Robert, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001
Series:New Americanists.
Subjects:
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Class consciousness in literature.
Middle class in literature.
Working class in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Social change in literature.
Fantasy in literature.
Work in literature.
Labor in literature.
United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
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