Routledge Companion to Literature and Class

Gloria McMillan is Research Associate in the Department of English at the University of Arizona. Her dissertation won the Florence Hemley Schneider Prize in Women’s Studies. She has taught college writing for over 27 years, has a number of produced plays (Universe Symphony, Pass the Ectoplasm), and has published a novel (The Blue Maroon Murder) and journal articles. She edited the multi-disciplinary essay collection Orbiting Ray Bradbury’s Mars (2012).

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• Introduction to The Routledge Literature and Class CompanionPart I: History of the Intersections of ClassIntersections of Class, Race, and Gender in Australian Indigenous Literature Sarah AttfieldClass Shifts in Yuan Dynasty China Kacey EvilsizorVictorian Socialist Obituaries and the Politics of Cross-Class Community Ingrid HansonSocial Class and Devastated Land in Yang Dantao's Science FictionHua LiNew York Literature and Social Space: The Tenement and the StreetAdam R. McKeeElena Ferrante's Fiction of Problematized Providing and ProtectingCristina MigliaccioDickens and Society: Can Dickens’s "Uppers" Change Their Minds? Peter J. PonzioSongs of Synthesis: Poetics of Working-Class Revolt Zara RichterThe Urban Spatiality of Street Literature Mattius RischardAllegories of Proletarian Literature: Boyden, Bontemps, and Halper in the Depression Era William SolomonAngry Young Men and The Loss of Empire Stanley WilkinPart II: Class in Literature: Intermittently (In)visible Race and Class as Catalysts for Obscuring a Novel Aaron BarlowProductive Disruption in the Working-Class Poetry of Jan Beatty, Sandra Cisneros, and Wanda Coleman Carrie ConnersRhetorical Voice and Class in Adichie's "Subaltern" Fiction Kristy Liles CrawleyDickens's Fairness in Describing Italian ComplexityGermana CubetaThe British Working-Class Bildungsroman during the Great Depression Charles Ferrall Enunciations and Avoidances of Capital and Class in the Evolution of Irish Theatre Eamonn JordanClass and Upper-Middle-Class Consciousness in Katherine Mansfield’s Stories Peter R. Kuch Writing Working-Class Irish MothersHeather LairdSocial Class and Mental Health in Contemporary British Fiction Simon LeePenny Fiction and Chartism: A Literature's Exclusion from the Canon Rebecca Nesvet Abject Capitalism as the Sight and Dead Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Novels Matthew L. Reznicek​Part III: New Multifactor Trends in Literature TheoryTa-Nehisi Coates Demystifies American Class and Race Mythology Marleen S. BarrDesiring Weird Bodies: Class Subjectivities in Hardy, Wilde, and Woolf Rebecca W. BoylanOral Storytelling as a Transnational Aesthetic in the Industrial Novel Erin CheslowClass, Race, and Social Stratification in British Theatre Between 1950s and 2000s Önder ḈakirtaşPecuniary Emulation, Anomie, and the Alleged Metropolitan Conversion of Sister Carrie Wendy GrahamPower and the Dialectics of Twentieth Century Science Fiction Christopher Loughlin The Strange Case of Dystopian Fiction Patricia McManusOn Capital and Class with Balzac, James, and Fitzgerald Erik S. Roraback Darwinian Ideas and Marxian Idealism in Austen, Twain, Yeats, Camus, and Ishiguro Nancy Ann WatanabeThe "Metaholon" Method for Class-Based Literature Analysis Agnieszka M. WillIndex