Rethinking Class: Literary Studies and Social Formations

Gilmore, Michael T.

ISBN 10: 0231076010 / ISBN 13: 9780231076012

Editore: Columbia University Press, 1994

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Riassunto:

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.

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Titolo: Rethinking Class: Literary Studies and ...
Casa editrice: Columbia University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1994
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good
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