Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature

Contents

Contents 1 The Veil and the Vision Reading Class in American Literature 1 2 “Discovering Some New Race” “Life in the Iron Mills,” Whiteness, and the Genesis of the American Labor Narrative 34 3 Voices of Insurgency Strikes, Speech, and Social Realism 66 4 Middle-Class Melancholy and Proletarian Pain The Writer as Class Transvestite 105 5 Modernism and the Aesthetics of Management T. S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein Write Labor Literature 143 6 The Fetish of Being Inside Proletarian Texts and Working-Class Bodies 198 Notes 257 Index 285 ...