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Narrating Class in American Fiction

Name: Narrating Class in American Fiction
Author: William Dow
ISBN: 9780230269415

by William Dow

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Overview

With a fresh and exciting perspective, Narrating Class in American Fiction offers close readings of American fiction from 1850-1940 in the context of literary and political history to illuminate the class discourses of its writers. Dow skillfully argues that the place of class in literary analysis has far to go in catching up to the panoply of "canonical" textual approaches. This book explores the uneasy attention American authors gave to class in their production of social identities and fills a gap in American literature scholarship.

About the Author, William Dow

William Dow is Professor of American Literature at the Université de Paris Est (Marne-la-Vallée) and teaches at The American University of Paris. He is the Managing Editor of Literary Journalism Studies and has published articles in such journals as Publications of the Modern Language Association, The Emily Dickinson Journal, Twentieth-Century Literature, Critique, Revue Française D'Etudes Américaines, and Annales du Monde.