Vital contact : downclassing journeys in American literature from Herman Melville to Richard Wright / by Patrick Chura.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Literary criticism and cultural theory.
Main Author: Chura, Patrick, 1964-
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2005.
Series:Literary criticism and cultural theory.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Social problems in literature.
Literature and society > United States.
Passing (Identity) in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Working class in literature.
Poor in literature.
Physical Description:ix, 240 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Vital contact
  • Resident gentry in Melville, Hawthorne, Jewett, James and Howells
  • Ernest Poole, Max Eastman and the legend of John Reed
  • Upton Sinclair's Coal war and dilemmas of class transvestiture
  • Spiritual adventures of social workers in Eugene O'Neill, Elia Peattie, and Clara Laughlin
  • The genteel radical in the years between Sinclair's Oil! and Boston
  • Alternative initiatives of Dos Passos, Steinbeck and Wright.