附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-200) and index.
Class, middle class, and the modalities of labor -- The burden of toil: Sister Carrie as urban pastoral -- Willa Cather and the ambivalence of hierarchy -- New frontiers in Hollywood: mobility and desire in the Day of the locust -- Into the 1950s: fiction in the age of consensus -- Postscript: the insistence of class and the framing of culture in the American scene.
摘要:Posits social class as the American political unconscious, showing (in an analysis of 19th and 20th century novels) how class exerts pressure on the American cultural imagination, and claiming that what is desired is ultimately the liberation from work.
