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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Georgia Pr
Publication date
August 1, 2010
Pages
325
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780820336978
ISBN-10
0820336971
Dimensions
1 by 5.75 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.10 lbs.
Original list price
$30.95
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, representations of âwhite collarâ Americansâthe âmiddleâ social strata H. L. Mencken ridiculed as boobus Americanusâtook on an ever-greater prominence within American literature and popular culture. Magazines like the Saturday Evening Post idolized businessmen and âaverage Americans,â while books like Winesburg, Ohio and Babbitt produced new portraits of âmiddle America.â In White Collar Fictions, Christopher P. Wilson explores how these white collar representations became part and parcel of a new social class coming to terms with its own power, authority, and contradictions. By investigating the material experience and social vocabularies within white collar life itself, Wilson uncovers the ways in which writers helped create a new cultural vocabularyââBabbittry,â the âlittle people,â the âAverage Americanââthat served to redefine power, authority, and commonality in American society. An innovative study that integrates literary analysis with social history, White Collar Fictions reexamines the life and work of Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, and such nearly forgotten authors as O. Henry, Edna Ferber, Robert Grant, and Elmer Rice.
Editions
Hardcover
from Univ of Georgia Pr (March 1, 1992)
9780820313672 | details & prices | 6.75 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $40.00
Paperback
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from Univ of Georgia Pr (August 1, 2010)
9780820336978 | details & prices | 325 pages | 5.75 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $30.95
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