Vanishing moments: class and American literature

1. The veil and the vision : reading class in American literature

2. "Discovering some new race" : "life in the iron mills," whiteness, and the genesis of the American labor narrative

3. Voices of insurgency : strikes, speech, and social realism

4. Middle-class melancholy and proletarian pain : the writer as class transvestite

5. Modernism and the aesthetics of management : T.S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein write labor literature

6. The fetish of being inside : proletarian texts and working-class bodies