Reading the Social in American Studies

Astrid Franke is Professor for American Literature and Culture at Tübingen University, Germany.Stefanie Mueller is a lecturer at the Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. Katja Sarkowsky is Professor of American Studies and Chair of American Studies at Augsburg University, Germany.

• Chapter 1: Reading the Social: An Introduction.- Chapter 2: Recognition, Literature, and their Social Dependence: An Inquiry into the Work of Bourdieu and Elias. Chapter 3: ‘Habit’ and the Concept of Character in American Literary Realism and Pragmatist Thought: The Example of William Dean Howells and the James Bothers.- Chapter 4: Pushing the ‘Envelope of Circumstances’: Reading the Social with Henry James and Pierre Bourdieu.- Chapter 5: Systemic Racism: Reading Ralph Ellison with Bourdieu’s Theory of Power.- Chapter 6: “On the Margins of One Group and Three Countries”: Exile, Belonging, and the Sociological Imagination in Reinhard Bendix’s From Berlin to Berkeley.- Chapter: 7. J.D. Vance, Cultural Alien: on Upward Mobility.- Chapter 8: Literariness and the Double Bind of Stigma.- Chapter 9: Civilization and Its Discontents: Reading Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club with Norbert.- Chapter 10: Reading Populism with Bourdieuand Elias.- Chapter 11: Reading the Social in Photography: Emotional Practices, Power Relations, and Iconography.