In recent years, as the centrality of race and gender has been established in literary studies, class has often been seen as a crude and reductionist concept. For this volume, the editors have commissioned essays arguing for the continuing vitality as well as the energizing problematics of the category of class.
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In recent years, as the centrality of race and gender has been established in literary studies, class has often been seen as a crude and reductionist concept. For this volume, the editors have commissioned essays arguing for the continuing vitality as well as the energizing problematics of the category of class.
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Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, x, 285 pp, Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms. Contains 8 papers. Includes: M. Poovey: "The Social Constitution of 'Class': Toward a History of Classificatory Thinking"; W.C. Dimock: "Class, Gender, and a History of Metonymy"; J. Guillory: "Literary Critics as Intellectuals: Class Analysis and the Crisis of the Humanities"; R.H. Brodhead: "Regionalism and the Upper Class"; E. Lott: "White Kids and No Kids at All: Languages of Race in Antebellum U.S. Working-Class Culture"; M.T. Gilmore: "Hawthorne and the Making of the Middle Class"; A. Janowitz: "Class and Literature: The Case of Romantic Chartism"; A.S. Lang: "The Syntax of Class in Elizabeth Stuart Phelp's 'The Silent Partner' ".
