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Rethinking Class
Gilmore, Michael T.. Ed(S): Dimock, Wai-Chee
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Paperback. As the importance of race and gender has become established recently in literary studies, the concept of class has been seen as crude and unnecessary. This study argues for the continuing vitality as well as the energizing problematics of the category of class in literature. Editor(s): Dimock, Wai-chee. Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S. Num Pages: 285 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
Series
The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S.
Number of Pages
285
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231076012
SKU
V9780231076012
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99-15
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