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Table of Contents

"Work Has the Smell of Vinegar": Sensing Class in John Berger's Trilogy

Peter Hitchcock
pp. 12-42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0003
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In the Country of Contradiction the Hypocrite is King: Defining Dirty Realism in Charles Bukowski's Factotum

Tamas Dobozy
pp. 43-68
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0002
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The Politics of Cliche: Sex, Class, and Abortion in Australian Realism

Nicole Moore
pp. 69-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0006
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Cities of Affluence: Masculinity, Class, and The Angry Young Men

Peter J. Kalliney
pp. 92-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0004
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Poles Apart? Ethnicity, Race, Class, and Nelson Algren

Ian Peddie
pp. 118-144
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0008
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Breaking the Signifying Chain: A New Blueprint for African-American Literary Studies

Bill Mullen
pp. 145-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0007
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The Other Proletarians: Native American Literature and Class Struggle

Tim Libretti
pp. 164-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0005
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The Failures of the Romance: Boredom, Class, and Desire in George Gissing's The Odd Women and W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage

Lise Shapiro Sanders
pp. 190-228
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0011
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Domestic Labor: Film Noir, Proletarian Literature, and Black Women's Fiction

Paula Rabinowitz
pp. 229-254
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0009
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A Theoretical Afterword

Asha Varadharajan
pp. 255-276
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0012
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Introduction: Working-Class Fictions

Stephen Ross
pp. 1-11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0010
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Contributors

pp. 277-278
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0001
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