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The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature provides an overview of the history, theory, and analysis of working-class literature. Taking a global and intersectional approach, the Companion demonstrates that literature is central to the (re)interpretation of the working class, a process that involves rereading the past as well as mapping the present. The collection examines how working-class literature is defined and the functions the term serves. It maps current debates and traces the ways in which a wide variety of theoretical and political movements have shaped the field. Challenging the stereotypical view that working-class writing is concerned solely with white, male industrial ...
I want everyone from Research to stop what they are doing and find out everything there is to know about Ryan Turner. Legal career. Personal life. Everything! An unexpected death creates a vacancy on the Supreme Court. The choice of a brilliant, but flawed nominee stuns the country and triggers a political storm that destroys everything in its path. What begins as a political fight over a Supreme Court nomination between well-funded interest groups soon escalates into a political death match between the nations two most powerful politicians. As 21st Century technology and a twenty-four hour news cycle become lethal tools in the political black art of character assassination, nothing is consi...
In the summer of 1940, after the fall of France to Hitler's advancing troops, opponents of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policy organized their many divergent groups into the powerful and vocal America First Committee (AFC). The committee coordinated all anti-interventionist efforts to block Roosevelt's proposals for providing lend-lease assistance abroad, arming merchant ships, and escorting war supplies to Allied ports. The AFC held huge public rallies, distributed tons of literature, supplied research data to members of Congress, and sponsored coast-to-coast radio speakers to support the anti-interventionist position. By the time the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7,...
This book engages with postclassical Trauma Studies in order to widen the scope of discussion about trauma to concepts such as toleration, mourning, nostalgia, vulnerability and existential Angst. The authors question literature's manifold relationship to trauma is undertaken in a conscientious dialogue with ethics and politics.