The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class (Routledge Literature Companions)

__The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class__ offers a comprehensive and fresh assessment of the cultural impact of class in literature, analyzing various innovative, interdisciplinary approaches of textual analysis and intersections of literature, including class subjectivities, mental health, gender and queer studies, critical race theory, quantitative and scientific methods, and transnational perspectives in literary analysis. Utilizing these new methods and interdisciplinary maps from field-defining essayists, students will become aware of ways to bring these elusive texts into their own writing as one of the parallel perspectives through which to view literature. This volume will provide students with an insight into the history of the intersections of class, theory of class and invisibility in literature, and new trends in exploring class in literature. These multidimensional approaches to literature will be a crucial resource for undergraduate and graduate students becoming familiar with class analysis, and will offer seasoned scholars the most significant critical approaches in class studies. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class offers a comprehensive and fresh assessment of the cultural impact of class in literature, analyzing various innovative, interdisciplinary approaches of textual analysis and intersections of literature. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 List of Contributors 11 Acknowledgments 16 Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class 18 Part I History of the Intersections of Class 28 Chapter 1 Intersections of Class, Race, and Gender in Australian Indigenous Literature 30 Chapter 2 Class Shifts in Yuan Dynasty China 44 Chapter 3 Victorian Socialist Obituaries and the Politics of Cross-Class Community 55 Chapter 4 Social Class and Devastated Land in Yang Dantao’s Science Fiction 68 Chapter 5 New York Literature and Social Space: The Tenement and the Street 80 Chapter 6 Elena Ferrante’s Fiction of Problematized Providing and Protecting 94 Chapter 7 Dickens and Society: Can Dickens’s “Uppers” Change Their Minds? 108 Chapter 8 Songs of Synthesis: Poetics of Working-Class Revolt 122 Chapter 9 The Urban Spatiality of Street Literature 135 Chapter 10 Allegories of Proletarian Literature: Boyden, Bontemps, and Halper in the Depression Era 148 Chapter 11 Angry Young Men and the Loss of Empire 162 Part II Class in Literature: Intermittently (In)visible 178 Chapter 12 Race and Class as Catalysts for Obscuring a Novel 180 Chapter 13 Productive Disruption in the Working-Class Poetry of Jan Beatty, Sandra Cisneros, and Wanda Coleman 193 Chapter 14 Rhetorical Voice and Class in Adichie’s “Subaltern” Fiction 206 Chapter 15 Dickens’s Fairness in Describing Italian Complexity 219 Chapter 16 The British Working-Class Bildungsroman during the Great Depression 237 Chapter 17 Enunciations and Avoidances of Capital and Class in Evolving Irish Theatre 250 Chapter 18 Class and Upper-Middle-Class Consciousness in Katherine Mansfield’s Stories 264 Chapter 19 Writing Working-Class Irish Mothers 276 Chapter 20 Social Class and Mental Health in Contemporary British Fiction 286 Chapter 21 Penny Fiction and Chartism: A Literature’s Exclusion from the Canon 298 Chapter 22 Abject Capitalism as the Sight of Dead Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Novels 310 Part III New Multifactor Trends in Literature Theory 324 Chapter 23 Ta-Nehisi Coates Demystifies American Class and Race Mythology 326 Chapter 24 Desiring Weird Bodies: Class Subjectivities in Hardy, Wilde, and Woolf 338 Chapter 25 Oral Storytelling as a Transnational Aesthetic in the Industrial Novel 350 Chapter 26 Class, Race, and Social Stratification in British Theatre between the 1950s and 2000s 362 Chapter 27 Pecuniary Emulation, Anomie, and the Alleged Metropolitan Conversion of Sister Carrie 376 Chapter 28 Power and the Dialectics of Twentieth-Century Science Fiction 389 Chapter 29 The Strange Case of Dystopian Fiction 402 Chapter 30 On Capital and Class with Balzac, James, and Fitzgerald 415 Chapter 31 Darwinian Ideas and Marxian Idealism in Austen, Twain, Yeats, Camus, and Ishiguro 429 Chapter 32 The “Metaholon” Method for Class-Based Literary Analysis 443 Index 462 class,in,literature;,textual,analysis;,critical,race,theory;,literary,analysis;,theory,of,class;,class,studies;,working-class,literature class in literature,textual analysis,critical race theory,literary analysis,theory of class,class studies,working-class literature "The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class offers a comprehensive and fresh assessment of the cultural impact of class in literature, analyzing various innovative, interdisciplinary approaches of textual analysis and intersections of literature, including class subjectivities, mental health, gender and queer studies, critical race theory, quantitative and scientific methods, and transnational perspectives in literary analysis. Utilizing these new methods and interdisciplinary maps from field-defining essayists, students will become aware of ways to bring these elusive texts into their own writing as one of the parallel perspectives through which to view literature. This volume will provide students with an insight into the history of the intersections of class, theory of class and invisibility in literature, and new trends in exploring class in literature. These multidimensional approaches to literature will be a crucial resource for undergraduate and graduate students in becoming familiar with class analysis, and offers seasoned scholars the most significant critical approaches in class studies"-- Provided by publisher The Routledge Companion To Literature And Class Offers A Comprehensive And Fresh Assessment Of The Cultural Impact Of Class In Literature, Analyzing Various Innovative, Interdisciplinary Approaches Of Textual Analysis And Intersections Of Literature, Including Class Subjectivities, Mental Health, Gender And Queer Studies, Critical Race Theory, Quantitative And Scientific Methods, And Transnational Perspectives In Literary Analysis. Utilizing These New Methods And Interdisciplinary Maps From Field-defining Essayists, Students Will Become Aware Of Ways To Bring These Elusive Texts Into Their Own Writing As One Of The Parallel Perspectives Through Which To View Literature. This Volume Will Provide Students With An Insight Into The History Of The Intersections Of Class, Theory Of Class And Invisibility In Literature, And New Trends In Exploring Class In Literature. These Multidimensional Approaches To Literature Will Be A Crucial Resource For Undergraduate And Graduate Students To Become Familiar With Class Analysis And Offer Seasoned Scholars The Most Significant Critical Approaches In Class Studies.