Article: Haunted houses: George Lippard, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and middle-class America.

In a recent essay in the collection Rethinking Class: Literary Studies and Social Formations, Michael Gilmore argues that class is the "subordinated" category in what he calls the "currently fashionable triad of American literary studies, race, gender, and class." "Disagreements abound over whether race or gender should occupy the top tier in the new cultural ranking," Gilmore suggests, "but about the subordination, even the effacement, of class, there can be no doubt." Thus in "Hawthorne and the Making of the Middle Class," Gilmore's laudable purpose is to take "issue with the critical consensus that relegates class to the margins of antebellum American literature." He ...

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