Rethinking Class - Literary Studies and Social Formations (Paperback, New)

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. The book's introduction addresses the ways that the concept of class has been employed in both literary and historical analysis, and the importance of a renewed interest in class in the current trend toward historicism. The first section of the book restores class to its moment of inception as both a theoretical construct and an objectively descriptive category. In the second section, the contributors test some of the general propositions set forth by examining the categorization of class as itself a history and a problematic. The text concludes by asking how the category of class can enrich and complicate our response to specific literary texts.

General

Imprint:	Columbia University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1994
First published:	September 1994
Editors:	Wai-Chee Dimock • Michael Gilmore
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	285
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-231-07601-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-231-07601-0
Barcode:	9780231076012

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