The Political Fiction of Ward Just. David Smit

are always capable of implementation.

      Notes

      1.

      For an excellent overview and bibliography of the scholarship on class in American life and fiction, see Lawson (2014, 15–21).

      2.

      For literary studies of the working class, see Foley (1993), Godden (1997), Hapke (2001), and Schocket (2006). For studies of the middle class, see Jurca (2001), Hoberek (2005), Lang (2003), Merish (2000), Schryer (2011), and Wilson (1992). For an overview of recent academic studies on middle- and working-class life, see Dow (2009, 4–7) and Kaplan (2000). For studies on the conjunction of politics, class, and race, see González (2008), Lott (1993), and Williams (2013).

      3.

      For studies of political ideas in fiction, see Baumeister and Horton (1996), Hutchison (2007), and Zuckert (1990).