Robert Z. Birdwell

The Radical Novel and the Classless Society (eBook, PDF)

Utopian and Proletarian Novels in U.S. Fiction from Bellamy to Ellison

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Radical Novel and the Classless Society analyzes utopian and proletarian novels as a single socialist tradition in U.S. literature. Utopian novels by such writers as Edward Bellamy, William Dean Howells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Sutton E. Griggs and proletarian novels by such writers as Robert Cantwell, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Meridel Le Sueur, Claude McKay, and Ralph Ellison can help us conceive of a unity of utopian and Marxist socialisms. We can combine the imagination of the future classless society with present-day socialist strategy. Utopian and proletarian novels help us to imagine-and realize-the classless society as achieving the utopian goal of recognizing race and gender and the Marxist goal of overcoming social class.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216292050
• Artikelnr.: 74832098

Autorenporträt

Robert Birdwell is visiting assistant professor in the Department of English at Tulane University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The Radical Novel and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Chapter One. The Radical Novel: Utopian and Scientific
Chapter Two. Recognition as Classless Society: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle,
Hegel's
Chapter Three. The Family as Trope of Recognition in the Utopian Novel:
Bellamy, Howells, and Gilman
Chapter Four. The Convergence of Family and Criminal in the Proletarian
Novel: Steinbeck and Wright
Chapter Five. The Rabble, or, The Prefiguration of the Classless Society in
Le Sueur and McKay
Chapter Six. The Divided People, or Classless Society and Agent of History:
Donnelly, Griggs, and Ellison
Conclusion. A Dialectic of Organizing and Art