Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature

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285 Index Aaron, Daniel, 80, 205 Addams, Jane, 132–33 aestheticism, 153, 154–55, 160, 178 modernism and, 145, 146, 149–50 affect, 93, 96, 97–98, 100, 152 African Americans, 35–36, 37–38, 61, 64, 76 blackface and, 56 Davis and, 46 determinism and, 62–63 Dickens and, 44 freedom and, 45 in Three Lives, 175, 179, 181, 185 voice of, 152–53 Agee, James, 112, 249, 254–55 agency, 26, 29, 39, 67, 72, 226 Air Traf‹c Controllers Strike of 1981, 29 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 69, 79, 80–86, 94 Hay and, 87, 88, 90, 92, 93 alienation, 24, 197 Althusser, Louis, 19, 21, 28 Amateur Laborer, An (Dreiser), 125, 272n46 American exceptionalism, 4–5, 49, 237 “Among the Sandwich Men” (Sanborn ), 117 anarchists, 95–97, 102, 206–9 Anderson, Perry, 28–29, 150 Anderson, Sherwood, 151, 152, 153 Annie Kilburn (Howells), 95 anonymity, 115–16, 219, 240 apprentices, 83–84 Armory Show, 143, 145, 151 art, 62, 151, 152, 162, 178, 197 avant-garde, 223–24, 253 cubism and, 143–47 impressionism and, 184 photography and, 7–11, 118–19, 147–48, 205, 240–41 surrealism and, 208, 245 Art by Subtraction (Stein), 175 Arvin, Newton, 50 Atlantic Monthly, 34–36, 44, 81 Auerbach, Jonathan, 129 Aunt Phillis’s Cabin (Eastman), 55 authenticity, 117, 140 authority, 123, 136, 137–38, 140, 142 autonomy, 77, 159–60 avant-garde movement, 223–24, 253 Avrich, Paul, 96 Bakhtin, M. M., 66, 74 Balibar, Étienne, 19, 21 ballads, 98–100 Barnard, Rita, 199, 245 “Bash the Poor!” (Baudelaire), 156 Baudelaire, Charles, 156 Bellamy, Edward, 233 Benjamin, Walter, 31, 32, 152 Berg, Allison, 136 Berlant, Lauren, 32 birth, 213–14 Blake, Fay, 69, 81 Blake, William, 190 blankness, 50–52, 53 Bly, Nellie, 111 bodies, 157, 196, 218, 223, 226, 241 culture and, 205 exploitation and, 206 fetishization of, 209 gender and, 214 hands and, 49, 81 heads and, 222 mouths and, 159, 220, 222, 244 physiognomy and, 181 proletarian literature and, 200, 252–53 Bold, Christine, 251 Book of the Dead, The (Rukeyser), 239–45, 248, 249 Book without a Title, or Thrilling Events in the Life of Mira Dana, A (Tyler), 69 bottom natures, 170–75, 177, 180, 185, 186 in Three Lives, 181, 183–84, 187–88, 193, 194, 196 Bourdieu, Pierre, 105 bourgeoisie, 13, 123, 200, 208, 225, 241 death of, 211 vs. domestic laborers, 179 fascism and, 246 James, Henry and, 183 Le Sueur as, 212–13 nationalism and, 236–38 sexuality and, 214–15 in Shadow Before, 227, 229 Bourke-White, Margaret, 7–11, 32 Bowlby, Rachel, 72, 108 Braverman, Harry, 146 Bread-Winners, The (Hay), 79–80, 87–94, 101 Browder, Earl, 248–49 Burke, Kenneth, 236–38, 247, 248 Butler, Judith, 22 Cabin and Parlor, The (Peterson), 55 Cady, Edwin, 80, 95 Caldwell, Erskine, 7–9, 11, 32 Calmer, Alan, 246 Calverton, V. F., 200 Calvinism, 38–39 capitalism, 2, 7, 24–26, 30–31, 94, 139 anticapitalism and, 239–41 cubism and, 146 culture and, 121 documentary and, 239 exploitation and, 16, 219 fetishization and, 204 government and, 76 growth of, 83 labor and, 39, 68, 73, 235 liberal, 69, 80, 84, 94, 95, 103 literature and, 22–23, 201, 239, 246, 251–52 London and, 130–31 Marxism and, 255 the “people” and, 237 process and, 178–79 race and, 36 reformism and, 132–33 sentimentality and, 5 in Shadow Before, 229 vs. slavery, 37 socialism and, 224 strikes and, 71, 75 violence and, 215 working class and, 223 Wyckoff and, 123 Capital (Marx), 14 Catholicism, 39 Cézanne, Paul, 175–76, 178, 184 characterization, 23, 35–36, 167, 171, 173, 181–83 Howells and, 94, 100–101 Chicago Poems (Sandburg), 151 children, 38, 134 Chinitz, David, 158, 159 Christianity, 60, 128–29 Cisneros, Sandra, 253 civil rights, 140 Civil Wars in France, The (Marx), 13 class, 3, 11–17, 114–15, 167, 219 culture and, 21, 26–28, 29, 118–24 essentialism and, 14–17, 20 286 INDEX 286 INDEX framing of, 7–11, 63 gender and, 52, 132–39 identity and, 14, 17–19, 64, 150, 185–86 language and, 48, 53, 204 modernism and, 145, 148–50 pro-slavery novels and, 54–56 race and, 59, 65, 186–88, 251 ruling class, 80, 88, 92 struggle of, 20–22, 110, 197, 203–4, 237 See also bourgeoisie; cross-class contact ; gender; middle class; race; working class classi‹cation, 20, 118 class transvestites, 105–24, 142, 201...