Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America by Michael Denning

Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America

The Haymarket Series

Michael Denning

259 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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A second edition of a widely acclaimed study of American popular fiction and working-class culture. Combining Marxist literary theory with American labor history, Michael Denning explores what happened when, in the 19th century, working people beg...

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