American Literature and Class

[Redistribute the Rep]

I feel like class is a an ubiquitous theme in American literature. The works of Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Twain and others come to mind. Would you say this is an accurate generalization? And how do you think this compares to literature from other countries, like say Britain?

[Sasha]

Intresting, never thought about it but its pretty much the same in American theater work. If not directly about class its about problems relating or acelarated by it.
I guess literature needs contradiction, protagonists and antagonists, class is in the US even more a source for conflict and drama than in other nations.

[Redistribute the Rep]

Intresting, never thought about it but its pretty much the same in American theater work. If not directly about class its about problems relating or acelarated by it.
I guess literature needs contradiction, protagonists and antagonists, class is in the US even more a source for conflict and drama than in other nations.

More than a few classic American writers were self described socialists: Mark Twain, Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Miller, I could go on. I'm tempted to say that class is more prevalent in American literature than other nations but then I could think of a lot of British literature in which class is featured (the works of Dickens, Orwell, etc) so I'm not sure if others would agree with that statement.