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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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (4): 437–464.
Published: 01 December 2023
... novel makes evident its position as a transitional work, in relation both to Woolf’s own development and to the larger shift from Edwardian to modernist fiction. Envisioning what kind of life might be possible in England for young middle-class women in the early twentieth century, the novel takes up...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Coalface (1935) “celebrates . . . miners as heroic individuals and as the class which sustains the industrial life of the economy.” In these films and others, the working-class is presented as embracing the spirit of productivity and progress and, as with Housing Problems ’s Mrs. Reddington...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 22–41.
Published: 01 March 2006
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they are afraid of being associated with the black working class, which
has been exploited and defined as inferior. Their class identifications ap
pear racial, however, because the institutions and ideologies of modern
capitalism reify race as an indicator of self and social worth. As a result,
24...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 317–344.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to be. This theoretical vocabulary sheds light on how the very “indefiniteness” of being exposes scarcity as a manufactured condition, one reinforced by the economy of representation to which more legible political projects must assimilate. In its ambivalence toward working-class politics and subjectivity, Le Sueur’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): 175–198.
Published: 01 June 2006
...—relations that Keynes upholds as
“a necessary part of the defense of civilization from barbarism” (797). In
After the Deluge, his book on the “political communal psychology” of the
middle classes, Woolf critiques the Keynesian ideological assumption that
the working classes “can only be kept...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 243–250.
Published: 01 June 2014
... blackness in
the black working class, this essay also influentially faulted an emergent
urban black middle class for its racial self-loathing and its aping of white
aesthetic standards.
Hughes as the writer who enshrined black working-class culture as
the lodestone of African American literary...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 225–234.
Published: 01 June 2022
... devotes more assiduous attention to works by authors from traditionally underrepresented populations, including Native Americans, the working class, and African Americans. Lambert defines the scope of his monograph more broadly than its title might suggest: “Because of the Depression’s tremendous inf...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 287–321.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of working-class ethnic men
and prostitutes had “by the 1910s . . . achieve[d] a legitimacy in urban
life unheard of in the Victorian age” (61). On this note, Barnes, in her
short article “You Can Tango” (1913), remarked on the recent “absolute
elimination of the old-style dance hall with its...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 149–172.
Published: 01 June 2024
... (1981 : 272) is thinking here of Lawrence—where a working-class subject flees their background, because these novels “lacked any sense of the continuity of working-class life, which does not cease just because one individual moves out of it.” Instead, Williams’s fiction—and indeed all his work...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 504–511.
Published: 01 December 2005
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phenomenon. Some elements of his book are so forcefully argued that
they can only bear repetition rather than commentary, such as his chapter
on music hall culture. Chinitz argues that Eliot’s “Marie Lloyd” essay—an
unabashed celebration of working-class art, and often seen as an anomaly
in Eliot’s...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 298–326.
Published: 01 September 2007
... the privations of
a violent working-class background in upstate N ew York, the other whose
increasing desperation leads him down a path o f fury and self-destruction.
The fact that, as w ith others among his protagonists, and in keeping with
his title (drawn from Simone Weil), Banks gives Wade W...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 191–214.
Published: 01 June 2002
... trends in the American
literary Left: uncritical support for the Soviet Union and the promotion
of proletarian literature, a form of social realism detailing the exploited
condition of the American working class. The work of James Farrell,
Richard Wright, and John Steinbeck had established...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 307–342.
Published: 01 December 2019
... commodification of labor as “cannibalizing” working-class Mexicana/os and Chicana/os, reducing individual workers to “imprisoned bodies of labor” in the name of “a patriarchal and capitalist currency.” As her novel decries economic and human rights violations in the US agricultural industry, it also gives voice...
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