Literature, class, and culture

Literature, Class, and Culture, the latest volume in the Literature and Culture Series, a series devoted to presenting thoughtful and diverse approaches to the presenting literature, is a thematic literature anthology that focuses solely on the consideration of class in "class-less" America. KEY TOPICS: Through stories, poems, songs, and essays, these selections from Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Woody Guthrie, Toni Cade Bambara, Sholem Asch, Dorothy Allison, and others provoke readers to examine their own economic, political, and psychological circumstances. MARKET: For anyone interested in the connection between literature, class, and culture.

Dedication. Contents. Introduction. A Note on Organization. Part 1: Bread., Land, and Station: Work and Class. Introduction to Part 1. Sarah Cleghorn, The Golf Links (poem). The Factory Girl (song). The Farmer is the Man (song). James Curry, Speech, 1840. Israel Campbell, from Bond and Free. Herman Melville, The Tartarus of Maids (story). Joe Hill, Casey Jones (song). Boxcar Bertha, Chapter 13 from Boxcar Bertha, An Autobiography. Carl Sandburg, Work Gangs (poem). Elizabeth Bishop, Filling Station (poem). Pietro di Donato, Section 1, Geremio, from Christ in Concrete, pp. 3-22 (section of novel). Merle Travis, Sixteen Tons (song). Deborah Boe, Factory Work (poem). Lloyd Zimpel, Sand from "Foundry Foreman, Foundryman (story). Jack London, The Apostate (story). Woody Guthrie, Hard Traveling (song). Albert Maltz, The Happiest Man on Earth (story). Tillie Olsen, pp. 59-64, from Yonnondio (excerpt from novel). Harvey Swados, On the Line, from On the Line (story). Patricia Dobler, Field Trip to the Rolling Mill, 1950 (poem). Jeanne Bryner, For Maude Callen: Nurse, Midwife, Pineville, NC, 1951 (poem). Jay Parini, Playing in the Mines (poem). Gwendolyn Brooks, Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat (poem). Dolly Parton, Nine to Five (song). Judy Grahn, Ella, in a square apron. . . from "The Common Woman Poems (poem). John Gilgun, Counting Tips (poem). Elinor Langer, from Inside the New York Telephone Company (essay). Paula Gunn Allen, Womanwork (poem). Susan Eisenberg, Hanging In Solo (poem). Francisco Jim nez, The Circuit (story). Jimmy Santiago Baca, So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans (poem). Gary Soto, Field Poem, History (poems). Gish Jen, His Own Society from In the American Society (story). Tato Laviera, Latero Story (poem). Peggy Gifford, The First Transplant (poem). Barbara Garson, McDonalds, from The Electronic Sweatshop (essay). Kristin Kovacic, Proud to Work for the University (essay). Junot D az, Edison, New Jersey (story). Part 2: Clothes Make the Woman.: The Social Dimensions of Class. Introduction to Part 2. Carolyn Steedman, The Weavers Daughter, from Landscape for a Good Woman (essay). Agnes Smedley, episode from Daughter of Earth, pp. 46-58 (excerpt from novel) Caroline Kirkland, from A New Home-Wholl Follow, pp. 38-40, 51-53, 67-68, 183-187 (excerpt from fictionalize d autobiography). Louisa May Alcott, Actress, from Work (chapter of novel). Hamlin Garland, Up the Coul_ (story). The Housekeepers Lament ("Life is a Toil") (song). Mary Wilkins Freeman, A Mistaken Charity (story). Sarah Orne Jewett, The Best China Saucer (story). Jack London, South of the Slot (story). James Oppenheim, Bread and Roses (poem). Anzia Yezierska, Soap and Water (story). Robert Frost, The Ax-Helve (poem). Edith Summers Kelley, Chapter 14 from Weeds (excerpt from novel). David Budbill, Bobbie, (poem). Edith Wharton, from The House of Mirth (excerpt from novel). W.C. Williams, To Elsie (poems). Kenneth Fearing, Dirge (poem). Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing (story). Ernesto Galarza, from Barrio Boy (autobiography). Mary McCarthy, from The Group (excerpt from novel). John Cheever, The Children (story). Carolyn Forch , As Children Together, from The Country Between Us (poem). Tess Gallagher, 3 a.m. Kitchen: My Father Talking (poem). David Citino, Visiting My Father in Florida (poem). Jim Daniels, Digger Goes on Vacation (poem). Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson (story). Lynda Glennon, Yale: Reflections on Class in New Haven (essay). Gloria Naylor, Kiswana Browne, from The Women of Brewster Place (story). Robert Coles, Money and Luck, from The Children of Privilege (essay). Dorothy Allison, Mama, from Trash (story). Kristin Hunter, Mom Luby and the Social Worker, from The Unforgetting Heart (story). Ntozake Shange, from Betsey Brown, pp. 125-140 (excerpt from novel). Garrett Hongo, Off From Swing Shift, from Yellow Light (poem). Bruce Springsteen, Galveston Bay (song). Philip Levine, You Can Have It (poem). Wakako Yamauchi, Maybe from Songs My Mother Taught Me (story). Charley King, Our Lives Are More Than Our Work (song). Bruce Springsteen, My Hometown (song). Patricia Dobler, Consumers, 1965 (poem). Lawrence Kearney, K Mart (poem). Janis Joplin, Oh, Lord Wont You Buy Me a Mercedes Benz (song). Laura Nader, Studying Up (essay). Christian McEwen, Growing Up Upper Class, from Out of the Class Closet, Lesbians Speak (essay). Richard Todd, Who Me, Rich? from Worth (essay). Gregory Mantsios, Rewards and Opportunities: The Politics and Economics of Class in the United States (essay with tables). Elizabeth Faue, A Post on Working-Class Experience. Part 3: ."Between the Workers and the Owners": Class Conflict. Introduction to Part 3. Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills (story). Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth (essay). Jack London, How I Became a Socialist (essay). Edwin Markham, The Man With the Hoe (poem-illustrated with Millets painting, on which the poem is based). Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave (song). Ralph Chaplin, Solidarity Forever (song). Mother Jones, March of the Mill Children, From Autobiography of Mother Jones (autobiography). Will Herford, Welfare Song (poem). Sholem Asch, Triangle Fire (story). John Reed, War in Paterson (essay). Mike Gold, Soul of a Landlord, from Jews Without Money (excerpt from novel). Tillie Olsen, I Want You Women Up North. . . . (poem). William Faulkner, Barn Burning (story). Carolina Pearl, We Was Sharecroppers from Southern Bitch (autobiography). Florence Reece, Which Side Are You On? (song). Kenneth Patchen, The Orange Bears (poem). Mary Fell, Picket Line in Autumn (poem). Alice Childress, In the Laundry Room (story). Steve Turner, from "Night Shift in a Pickle Factory (autobiography), pp. 7-28, 57-64. Theodore Roethke, Pickle Belt (poem). Alice Wirth Gray, He Was When He Died (poem). Bob Dylan, I Aint Gonna Work on Maggies Farm (song). Susan Eisenberg, Subway Conversations (poem). David Ignatow, The Boss (poem). Ysaye Barnwell, as sung by Sweet Honey in the Rock, More Than a Paycheck (song). Sue Doro, Subject to Change (poem). Ed Ochester, The World We Dreamed Of (poem). Billy Joel, Allentown (song). Michael Winerip, The Blue-Collar Millionaire (essay). Jim Gogolak, Inland and the Titanic: A Comparison (essay). Part 4: Classic or Classy.: Art and Class. Introduction to Part 4. Matthew Arnold, from Culture and Anarchy (essay). Raymond Williams,