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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 85–93.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Alex Streim 2 See, for instance, Heffernan 2020 ; Hines 2022 ; and Jaillant 2022 . Works Cited Ehrenreich Barbara Ehrenreich John . 1979 . “ The Professional-Managerial Class .” In Between Labor and Capital , edited by Walker Pat , 5 – 47 . Boston : South End...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (4): 520–546.
Published: 01 December 2003
...Patrick J. Chura Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 “Vital Contact”: Eugene O ’Neill
and the Working Class
Patrick J. Churn
O ’Neill entered upon the scene as one darkly handsome sailor
with burning eyes and burning ambition, with undiscovered tal
ent...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 121–146.
Published: 01 June 2023
... Finch—is articulated in part by snobbish opposition to what she deems to be “white trash” attitudes. In this way Lee’s critique of a steeply stratified southern society is compromised by her transferring the symbolic rhetoric of defilement from a racial “other” to a class “other” assumed to be racist...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... humanism and antihumanism, publishing many of the major literary works cited by poststructuralist thinkers. This editorial sensibility found its roots in the class character of the press, which was headed by affluent radical Barney Rosset. Drawing on close readings of key publications, as well...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 203–224.
Published: 01 June 2023
... working-class skill appear in the art groups in the novel’s present. Such valorizations of the artist’s labor are offset both by the absorption of the former artist Jesse Detwiler into Nick Shay’s corporate workplace and by the novel’s neglect of gentrification. In turn, with Underworld ’s representations...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 March 2022
... an interracial, intergenerational homoerotics of patronage between the white widowed elder, Mrs. Dora Ellsworth, and young Black pianist, Ms. Oceola Jones. The discussion places in stark relief the patron’s erotic competition with her protégée’s working-class African American fiancé. The article also grapples...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 207–232.
Published: 01 June 2020
...William Fogarty Taking up the persistent question of poetry’s sociopolitical capacities by considering how Harrison’s poems depend on the power of local speech, this article examines how they cast his working-class northern English dialect in meter and rhyme as a way to scrutinize social...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 455–482.
Published: 01 December 2021
...’ responses testified ( Watt 1975 : 66, 73)—that Huxley wanted readers to disapprove of Scogan. Scogan’s encomium to aristocracy echoes language Huxley had used in a 1920 article on Balzac, which claimed that the aristocracy “extends their protection to eccentric and heretical members of other classes...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 149–172.
Published: 01 June 2024
.... [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Hofstra University 2024 class culture imperialism James Joyce Raymond Williams [Since] education is tied to social advancement in a class society … it is difficult to hold both to education and to social solidarity. —Raymond Williams, The Country...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 161–190.
Published: 01 June 2018
... racial and class divisions and criticizes the perpetuation of the American pastoral myth and the myth of the American Dream, which endures despite the counter-reality of African Americans’ experience. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 1967 Newark riots African Americans Newark’s history...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (4): 437–464.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., middle-class women. Typically, the narratives’ protagonists ultimately abandon the idea of the free union, the novels often ending after all with a conventional engagement. Night and Day follows this pattern, but only to a point. It examines the free union as an opportunity for a more liberated life...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 309–336.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Mary McGlynn Focusing on one of the most frequent and explicit targets of Thatcher’s economic policies, working-class men in traditional heavy industries, I explore representations of the dissolution of both unions and private space under Thatcher. Looking at fiction, films, and screenplays...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 269–276.
Published: 01 June 2010
... Press, 2009. 432 pages
Alison Shonkwiler
What constitutes middle-class fiction? Is it subject matter? A degree of
realism or attention to detail? Or can it be defined simply by identify-
ing which novels middle-class readers read? Presumably a case could be
made, following the historical...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 341–353.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Andrew Hoberek 2011 Postmodernism and Modernization
Postmodernism and Modernization
Andrew Hoberek
In my book The Twilight of the Middle Class I argue that we should “read
postmodernism dialectically, as the worldview not only of middle-class
privilege but of the hollowness...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): 175–198.
Published: 01 June 2006
....” Taking
my cue from her, I will reconsider Woolf and Klein in the context of
another war—“the war after the war” (Hynes 353—82)—that is, the
severe class struggle in Britain in the 1920s.3 I will attend especially to
political “anxiety” (a term of crucial importance in Kleinian theory...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 22–41.
Published: 01 March 2006
... welcomed the arrival of a left-leaning, work
ing-class New Negro. More often than not, however, definitions of the
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The Gold Standard of Racial Identity in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing
New Negro asserted that black Americans belonged...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 619–656.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of business, social, and
literary life in St. Louis” (qtd. in Morrow 123). In late September of 1898,
the ten-year-old Eliot entered Smith Academy, where he had been placed
in the second year class of the Preparatory Department.6 Presumably, it
was both his age and his performance on the entrance...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 596–618.
Published: 01 December 2001
...” and “Handsworth Songs.”
However, in the explicatory glosses through which Rushdie has sought
to project the authorial meaning of his work, his use of the term migra
tion robs it of a certain specificity of history and class. This is especially
apparent in the controversy surrounding The Satanic Verses...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 455–480.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Legal Services and other Community Action
initiatives: the creation of a new, multi-racial and cross-class coalition
to replace the fragmenting electoral coalition that underlay the New
Deal welfare state. Over the course of the 1960s, the Democratic Party
began to envisage itself as a party...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 260–268.
Published: 01 June 2010
... of their own, but the
book contains a strikingly large amount of authorial reflection,
wise sayings about love, class and culture, panic and emptiness,
prose and passion, connecting and not connecting, straightfor-
ward announcements of the Forsterian way of looking...
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