{"product_id":"white-collar-fictions-christopher-p-wilson-9780820336978","title":"White Collar Fictions: Class and Social Representation in American Literature, 1885-1925","description":"At the turn of the twentieth century, representations of \"white collar\" Americans--the \"middle\" social strata H. L. Mencken ridiculed as boobus Americanus--took on an ever-greater prominence within American literature and popular culture. Magazines like the \u003ci\u003eSaturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e idolized businessmen and \"average Americans,\" while books like \u003ci\u003eWinesburg, Ohio and Babbitt\u003c\/i\u003e produced new portraits of \"middle America.\" In \u003ci\u003eWhite Collar Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e, Christopher P. Wilson explores how these white collar representations became part and parcel of a new social class coming to terms with its own power, authority, and contradictions. By investigating the material experience and social vocabularies within white collar life itself, Wilson uncovers the ways in which writers helped create a new cultural vocabulary--\"Babbittry,\" the \"little people,\" the \"Average American\"--that served to redefine power, authority, and commonality in American society. An innovative study that integrates literary analysis with social history, \u003ci\u003eWhite Collar Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e reexamines the life and work of Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, and such nearly forgotten authors as O. Henry, Edna Ferber, Robert Grant, and Elmer Rice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher P. Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820336971\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820336978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d","brand":"Christopher P. Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48153120801023,"sku":"9780820336978","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_15dc2f4e-979b-4841-840f-65c608346333.jpg?v=1770781427","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/white-collar-fictions-christopher-p-wilson-9780820336978","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}