A History of American Working-Class Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of American Working-Class Literature write by Nicholas Coles. This book was released on 2017-03-02. A History of American Working-Class Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A History of American Working-Class Literature sheds light not only on the lived experience of class but the enormously varied creativity of working-class people throughout the history of what is now the United States. By charting a chronology of working-class experience, as the conditions of work have changed over time, this volume shows how the practice of organizing, economic competition, place, and time shape opportunity and desire. The subjects range from transportation narratives and slave songs to the literature of deindustrialization and globalization. Among the literary forms discussed are memoir, journalism, film, drama, poetry, speeches, fiction, and song. Essays focus on plantation, prison, factory, and farm, as well as on labor unions, workers' theaters, and innovative publishing ventures. Chapters spotlight the intersections of class with race, gender, and place. The variety, depth, and many provocations of this History are certain to enrich the study and teaching of American literature.
American Working-class Literature
American Working-class Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Working-class Literature write by Nicholas Coles. This book was released on 2007. American Working-class Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American Working-Class Literature is an edited collection containing over 300 oieces of literature by, about, and in the interests of the working class in America. Organized in a broadly historical fashion, with texts are grouped around key historical and cultural developments in working-class life, this volume records the literature of the working classes from the early laborers of the 1600 up until the present.
A History of British Working Class Literature
A History of British Working Class Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of British Working Class Literature write by John Goodridge. This book was released on 2017-04-27. A History of British Working Class Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A History of British Working-Class Literature examines the rich contributions of working-class writers in Great Britain from 1700 to the present. Since the early eighteenth century the phenomenon of working-class writing has been recognised, but almost invariably co-opted in some ultimately distorting manner, whether as examples of 'natural genius'; a Victorian self-improvement ethic; or as an aspect of the heroic workers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century radical culture. The present work contrastingly applies a wide variety of interpretive approaches to this literature. Essays on more familiar topics, such as the 'agrarian idyll' of John Clare, are mixed with entirely new areas in the field like working-class women's 'life-narratives'. This authoritative and comprehensive History explores a wide range of genres such as travel writing, the verse-epistle, the elegy and novels, while covering aspects of Welsh, Scottish, Ulster/Irish culture and transatlantic perspectives.
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Short History of the U.S. Working Class write by Paul Le Blanc. This book was released on 2017-01-15. A Short History of the U.S. Working Class available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “His aim is to make the history of labor in the U.S. more accessible to students and the general reader. He succeeds” (Booklist). In a blend of economic, social, and political history, Paul Le Blanc shows how important labor issues have been, and continue to be, in the forging of our nation. Within a broad analytical framework, he highlights issues of class, gender, race, and ethnicity, and includes the views of key figures of United States labor. The result is a thought-provoking look at centuries of American history from a perspective that is too often ignored or forgotten. “An excellent overview, enhanced by a valuable glossary.” —Elaine Bernard, director of the Harvard Trade Union Program
How the Other Half Ate
How the Other Half Ate - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How the Other Half Ate write by Katherine Leonard Turner. This book was released on 2014-01-10. How the Other Half Ate available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that were distinctly shaped by jobs, families, neighborhoods, and the tools, utilities, and size of their kitchens—along with their cultural heritage. How the Other Half Ate is a deep exploration by historian and lecturer Katherine Turner that delivers an unprecedented and thoroughly researched study of the changing food landscape in American working-class families from industrialization through the 1950s. Relevant to readers across a range of disciplines—history, economics, sociology, urban studies, women’s studies, and food studies—this work fills an important gap in historical literature by illustrating how families experienced food and cooking during the so-called age of abundance. Turner delivers an engaging portrait that shows how America’s working class, in a multitude of ways, has shaped the foods we eat today.
