RETHINKING CLASS by Wai-chee Dimock (Editor), Michael T. Gilmore ( 9780231076012 )

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RETHINKING CLASS
LITERARY STUDIES AND SOCIAL FORMATIONS

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Wai-chee Dimock (Editor), Michael T. Gilmore

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0231076010

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

2 August, 1994

Pages:

285

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As the importance of race and gender has become established recently in literary studies, the concept of class has been seen as crude and unnecessary. This study argues for the continuing vitality as well as the energizing problematics of the category of class in literature.

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In recent years, as the centrality of race and gender has been established in literary studies, class has often been seen as a crude and reductionist concept. For this volume, the editors have commissioned essays arguing for the continuing vitality as well as the energizing problematics of the category of class. The book's introduction addresses the ways that the concept of class has been employed in both literary and historical analysis, and the importance of a renewed interest in class in the current trend toward historicism. The first section of the book restores class to its moment of inception as both a theoretical construct and an objectively descriptive category. In the second section, the contributors test some of the general propositions set forth by examining the categorization of class as itself a history and a problematic. The text concludes by asking how the category of class can enrich and complicate our response to specific literary texts.

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