The Working Class in American Literature - Essays on Blue Collar Identity (Paperback)

Literary texts are artifacts of their time and ideologies. This book collection explores the working class in American literature from the colonial to the contemporary period through a critical lens which addresses the real problems of approaching class through economics. Significantly, this book moves the analysis of working-class literature away from the Marxist focus on the relationship between class and the means of production and applies an innovative concept of class based on the sociological studies of humans and society first championed by Max Weber. Of primary concern is the construction of class separation through the concept of in-grouping/out grouping. This book builds upon the theories established in John F. Lavelle's Blue Collar, Theoretically: A Post-Marxist Approach to Working Class Literature (McFarland, 2011) and puts them into practice by examining a diverse set of texts that reveal the complexity of class relations in American society.

General

Imprint:	McFarland & Company
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2021
Editors:	John F. Lavelle • Debbie Lelekis
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	198
ISBN-13:	978-1-4766-7306-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General
LSN:	1-4766-7306-3
Barcode:	9781476673066

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