Reading the social in American studies. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Astrid Franke, Stefanie Mueller, Katja Sarkowsky.
• Editors: Franke, Astrid, 1968-; Mueller, Stefanie; Sarkowsky, Katja
• Contents: Chapter 1: Reading the Social: An Introduction.- Chapter 2: Recognition, Literature, and their Social Dependence: An Inquiry into the Work of Bourdieu and Elias. Chapter 3: 'Habit' and the Concept of Character in American Literary Realism and Pragmatist Thought: The Example of William Dean Howells and the James Bothers.- Chapter 4: Pushing the 'Envelope of Circumstances': Reading the Social with Henry James and Pierre Bourdieu.- Chapter 5: Systemic Racism: Reading Ralph Ellison with Bourdieu's Theory of Power.- Chapter 6: 'On the Margins of One Group and Three Countries': Exile, Belonging, and the Sociological Imagination in Reinhard Bendix's From Berlin to Berkeley.- Chapter: 7. J.D. Vance, Cultural Alien: on Upward Mobility.- Chapter 8: Literariness and the Double Bind of Stigma.- Chapter 9: Civilization and Its Discontents: Reading Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club with Norbert.- Chapter 10: Reading Populism with Bourdieu and Elias.- Chapter 11: Reading the Social in Photography: Emotional Practices, Power Relations, and Iconography.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 810.9355; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Social change in literature; Sociology in literature; United States -- Civilization; United States -- Social conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030935511
• Related ISBNs: 9783030935504
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