{"product_id":"around-quitting-time-work-and-middle-class-fantasy-in-american-fiction-paperback","title":"Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Seguin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirtually since its inception, the United States has nurtured a dreamlike and often delirious image of itself as an essentially classless society. Given the stark levels of social inequality that have actually existed and that continue today, what sustains this at\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eonce hopelessly ideological and breathlessly utopian mirage? In \u003ci\u003eAround Quitting Time\u003c\/i\u003e Robert Seguin investigates this question, focusing on a series of modern writers who were acutely sensitive to the American web of ideology and utopic vision in order to argue that a pervasive middle-class imaginary is the key to the enigma of class in America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Tracing connections between the reconstruction of the labor process and the aesthetic dilemmas of modernism, between the emergence of the modern state and the structure of narrative, Seguin analyzes the work of Nathanael West, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, John Barth, and others. These fictional narratives serve to demonstrate for Seguin the pattern of social sites and cultural phenomenon that have emerged where work and leisure, production and consumption, and activity and passivity coincide. He reveals how, by creating pathways between these seemingly opposed domains, the middle-class imaginary at once captures and suspends the dynamics of social class and opens out onto a political and cultural terrain where class is both omnipresent and invisible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAround Quitting Time\u003c\/i\u003e will interest critics and historians of modern U.S. culture, literary scholars, and those who explore the interaction between economic and cultural forms.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA remarkably positive achievement that contributes significantly to an understanding of quite a range of texts, to an understanding of specific currents of literary modernism, and most generally to an understanding of class, which--in a U.S. context especially--remains that most vexed of social categories.--Evan Watkins, Pennsylvania State University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Seguin is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York at Brockport.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9.04 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 20, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53801472426291,"sku":"9780822326700","price":58.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/OzYV3g_bla9780822326700.webp?v=1785968914","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/around-quitting-time-work-and-middle-class-fantasy-in-american-fiction-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}