Narrating Class in American Fiction

1. Introduction
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2. Whitman’s 1855 Leaves of Grass: “Hard Work and Blood”
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3. Class and the Performative in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills, and Stephen Crane’s Maggie
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4. Body Tramping, Class, and Masculine Extremes: Jack London’s The People of the Abyss
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5. “Always Your Heart”: Class Designs in Jean Toomer’s Cane
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6. Meridel Le Sueur’s Salute to Spring: “A Movement Up Which All Are Moving”
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7. Class, Work, and New Races: Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Agnes Smedley’s Daughter of Earth
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8. Class “Truths” in James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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9. Conclusion
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Keywords: Linguistics, English, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature