| The Radical Novel and the Classless Society: Utopian and Proletarian Novels in U.S. Fiction from Bellamy to Ellison Contributor(s): Birdwell, Robert Z. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1498570410 ISBN-13: 9781498570411 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $109.89 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Politics - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 813.009 |
| LCCN: 2018032706 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.14 lbs) 204 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |