Louis Adamic and Robert Cantwell produced diametrically opposed theories as to what the working class of the 1930s read. Their debate, which coincided with the beginnings of a sociology of reading (in particular Waples’s work at Chicago), can serve to clarify the interactions that exist between the various meanings ascribed to the term “proletarian literature” (plebian avant-garde, working-class consumption of pulps, or proletarian taste for the classics). The dialectic between pulps and proles, when used as analytic tool, reveals unexpected connections between class militancy and popular success. Serious cultural studies should not, however, dwell simply on individual reading practices and strategies, but attempt to analyze how institution...
This project speaks to those with broad research interests in rhetorical studies, the ethnography of...
[À l'origine dans / Was originally part of : Thèses et mémoires - FAS - Département d'études anglais...
Change and Permanence in Popular Culture : Reading Practices during the Belle Époque. Although the...
Louis Adamic and Robert Cantwell produced diametrically opposed theories as to what the working clas...
This paper aims to contribute to the growing field of scholarship that examines reading within the l...
Unlike romanticism, realism, naturalism, or modernism, U.S. proletarianism is a generic category tha...
Almost as soon as a certain movement in early twentieth-century American literature began to be labe...
"The aim of this collection is to make possible the forging of a more robust, politically useful, an...
The aim of this collection is to contribute to the forging of a more robust, politically useful, and...
In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of boo...
Bookmarked neatly by the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939,...
This anthology of essays—written during the "radical" sixties– offers critical analyses and/or ...
The relationship between the study of Greek and Roman classics and European communism, particularly ...
The aim of this collection is to make possible the forging of a more robust, politically useful, and...
This book covers the period of working class socialism between the final years of the nineteenth cen...
This project speaks to those with broad research interests in rhetorical studies, the ethnography of...
[À l'origine dans / Was originally part of : Thèses et mémoires - FAS - Département d'études anglais...
Change and Permanence in Popular Culture : Reading Practices during the Belle Époque. Although the...
Louis Adamic and Robert Cantwell produced diametrically opposed theories as to what the working clas...
This paper aims to contribute to the growing field of scholarship that examines reading within the l...
Unlike romanticism, realism, naturalism, or modernism, U.S. proletarianism is a generic category tha...
Almost as soon as a certain movement in early twentieth-century American literature began to be labe...
"The aim of this collection is to make possible the forging of a more robust, politically useful, an...
The aim of this collection is to contribute to the forging of a more robust, politically useful, and...
In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of boo...
Bookmarked neatly by the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939,...
This anthology of essays—written during the "radical" sixties– offers critical analyses and/or ...
The relationship between the study of Greek and Roman classics and European communism, particularly ...
The aim of this collection is to make possible the forging of a more robust, politically useful, and...
This book covers the period of working class socialism between the final years of the nineteenth cen...
This project speaks to those with broad research interests in rhetorical studies, the ethnography of...
[À l'origine dans / Was originally part of : Thèses et mémoires - FAS - Département d'études anglais...
Change and Permanence in Popular Culture : Reading Practices during the Belle Époque. Although the...