Vital Contact: Downclassing Journeys in American Literature from Melville to Richard Wright

by Patrick Chura

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The book analyzes American literature about middle or upper class characters who voluntarily descend the class ranks to experience "vital contact" by living or associating, temporarily, with the poor. The motivations of these characters--and historical figures such as John Reed and Walter Wyckoff--range from straightforward bohemian slumming among the "exotics" to more complex and psychologically wrought investigations of cross-class empathy. The...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0415869501

ISBN13:9780415869508

Release Date:October 2013

Publisher:Routledge

Length:250 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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