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Vital Contact - Downclassing Journeys in American Literature from Melville to Richard Wright (Hardcover)
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Vital Contact - Downclassing Journeys in American Literature from Melville to Richard Wright (Hardcover)
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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The book analyzes American literature about middle or upper class
characters who voluntarily descend the class ranks to experience
"vital contact" by living or associating, temporarily, with the
poor. The motivations of these characters--and historical figures
such as John Reed and Walter Wyckoff--range from straightforward
bohemian slumming among the "exotics" to more complex and
psychologically wrought investigations of cross-class empathy. The
study begins by charting downclasing processes in works of
canonical nineteenth-century authors, including Melville,
Hawthorne, James, Howells and Jewett. It then undertakes an
original analysis of John Reed's involvement with the 1913 Paterson
silk workers' strike as a context for understanding Ernest Poole's
(now forgotten, but then best-selling) fictionalization of the
strike in his novel, "The Harbor," In other richly historicized
chapters, it analyzes distillations of class radicalism in several
works by Upton Sinclair, in the early drama of Eugene O'Neill, and
in feminist novels of the 1910s by Elia Peattie and Clara Laughlin.
The concluding chapter looks at sophisticated treatments of "vital
contact" in fiction of the 1930s by Dos Passos, Steinbeck and
Richard Wright. The book provides Americanists with important new
ways of thinking about various forms of class identification as
they developed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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