The Resource Around quitting time : work and middle-class fantasy in American fiction, Robert Seguin
Around quitting time : work and middle-class fantasy in American fiction, Robert Seguin
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- Summary
- "Virtually since its inception, the United States has nurtured a dreamlike and often delirious image of itself as an essentially classless society. Given the stark levels of social inequality that have actually existed and that continue today, what sustains this at once hopelessly ideological and breathlessly utopian mirage? In Around Quitting Time Robert Seguin investigates this question, focusing on a series of modern writers who were acutely sensitive to the American web of ideology and utopic vision in order to argue that a pervasive middle-class imaginary is the key to the enigma of class in America." "Tracing connections between the reconstruction of the labor process and the aesthetic dilemmas of modernism, between the emergence of the modern state and the structure of narrative, Seguin analyzes the work of Nathanael West, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, John Barth, and others. These fictional narratives serve to demonstrate for Seguin the pattern of social sites and cultural phenomena that have emerged where work and leisure, production and consumption, and activity and passivity coincide. He reveals how, by creating pathways between these seemingly opposed domains, the middle-class imaginary at once captures and suspends the dynamics of social class and opens out onto a political and cultural terrain where class is both omnipresent and invisible. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 210 p.
- Contents
-
- Acknowledgments
- 1.
- Class, Middle Class, and the Modalities of Labor.
- p. 1
- 2.
- Burden of Toil: Sister Carrie as Urban Pastoral.
- p. 19
- 3.
- Willa Cather and the Ambivalence of Hierarchy.
- p. 57
- 4.
- New Frontiers in Hollywood: Mobility and Desire in The Day of the Locust.
- p. 83
- 5.
- Into the 1950s: Fiction in the Age of Consensus.
- p. 121
- Postscript: The Insistence of Class and the Framing of Culture in the American Scene.
- p. 153
- Notes.
- p. 167
- Bibliography.
- p. 189
- Index.
- p. 201
- Isbn
- 9780822326700
- Label
- Around quitting time : work and middle-class fantasy in American fiction
- Title
- Around quitting time
- Title remainder
- work and middle-class fantasy in American fiction
- Statement of responsibility
- Robert Seguin
- Subject
-
- Class consciousness in literature
- Fantasy in literature
- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Middle class in literature
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Work in literature
- Working class in literature
- Social change in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Virtually since its inception, the United States has nurtured a dreamlike and often delirious image of itself as an essentially classless society. Given the stark levels of social inequality that have actually existed and that continue today, what sustains this at once hopelessly ideological and breathlessly utopian mirage? In Around Quitting Time Robert Seguin investigates this question, focusing on a series of modern writers who were acutely sensitive to the American web of ideology and utopic vision in order to argue that a pervasive middle-class imaginary is the key to the enigma of class in America." "Tracing connections between the reconstruction of the labor process and the aesthetic dilemmas of modernism, between the emergence of the modern state and the structure of narrative, Seguin analyzes the work of Nathanael West, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, John Barth, and others. These fictional narratives serve to demonstrate for Seguin the pattern of social sites and cultural phenomena that have emerged where work and leisure, production and consumption, and activity and passivity coincide. He reveals how, by creating pathways between these seemingly opposed domains, the middle-class imaginary at once captures and suspends the dynamics of social class and opens out onto a political and cultural terrain where class is both omnipresent and invisible. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1963-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Seguin, Robert
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- New Americanists
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- American fiction
- Middle class in literature
- Literature and society
- Class consciousness in literature
- Working class in literature
- Social change in literature
- Fantasy in literature
- Work in literature
- United States
- Label
- Around quitting time : work and middle-class fantasy in American fiction, Robert Seguin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and index
- Contents
-
- Acknowledgments
- 1.
- Class, Middle Class, and the Modalities of Labor.
- p. 1
- 2.
- Burden of Toil: Sister Carrie as Urban Pastoral.
- p. 19
- 3.
- Willa Cather and the Ambivalence of Hierarchy.
- p. 57
- 4.
- New Frontiers in Hollywood: Mobility and Desire in The Day of the Locust.
- p. 83
- 5.
- Into the 1950s: Fiction in the Age of Consensus.
- p. 121
- Postscript: The Insistence of Class and the Framing of Culture in the American Scene.
- p. 153
- Notes.
- p. 167
- Bibliography.
- p. 189
- Index.
- p. 201
- Control code
- 13794361
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 210 p.
- Isbn
- 9780822326700
- Lccn
- 00046257
- Label
- Around quitting time : work and middle-class fantasy in American fiction, Robert Seguin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and index
- Contents
-
- Acknowledgments
- 1.
- Class, Middle Class, and the Modalities of Labor.
- p. 1
- 2.
- Burden of Toil: Sister Carrie as Urban Pastoral.
- p. 19
- 3.
- Willa Cather and the Ambivalence of Hierarchy.
- p. 57
- 4.
- New Frontiers in Hollywood: Mobility and Desire in The Day of the Locust.
- p. 83
- 5.
- Into the 1950s: Fiction in the Age of Consensus.
- p. 121
- Postscript: The Insistence of Class and the Framing of Culture in the American Scene.
- p. 153
- Notes.
- p. 167
- Bibliography.
- p. 189
- Index.
- p. 201
- Control code
- 13794361
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 210 p.
- Isbn
- 9780822326700
- Lccn
- 00046257
Subject
- Class consciousness in literature
- Fantasy in literature
- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Middle class in literature
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Work in literature
- Working class in literature
- Social change in literature
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