The radical novel and the classless society : utopian and proletarian novels in U.S. fiction from Bellamy to Ellison / by Birdwell, Robert, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…The radical novel and socialism: utopian and scientific -- The radical novel: utopian and scientific -- Recognition as classless society: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Hegel's Lordship and Bondage, and Lukacs' History and Class Consciousness -- The family as trope of recognition in the utopian novel: Bellamy, Howells, and Gilman -- The convergence of family and criminal in the proletarian novel: Steinbeck and Wright -- The rabble, or, the prefiguration of the classless society in Le Sueur and McKay -- The divided people, or classless society and agent of history: Donnelly, Griggs, and Ellison -- Conclusion. …”