The novel and the American left : critical essays on Depression-era fiction

The novel and the American left : critical essays on Depression-era fiction /

The first collection of critical essays to focus specifically on the fiction produced by American novelists of the Depression era, The Novel and the American Left contributes substantially to the newly emerging emphasis on twentieth-century American literary radicalism. Recent studies have recovered...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Casey, Janet Galligani
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2004
Subjects:
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Communism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Socialism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Right and left (Political science) > History > 20th century.
Working class writings, American > History and criticism.
Right and left (Political science) in literature.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Depressions > 1929 > United States.
Working class in literature.
Progressivism in literature.
Depressions in literature.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Janet Galligani Casey
  • Taking tips and losing class / Donna M. Campbell
  • My little illegality / Joy Castro
  • Shriveled breasts and dollar signs / Angela Marie Smith
  • Monstrous modernism / Joseph Entin
  • The objectivity of nature in Josephine Herbst's Rope of gold / Caren Irr
  • Agrarian landscapes, the Depression, and women's progressive fiction / Janet Galligani Casey
  • The avengers of Christie Street / Lee Bernstein
  • "Smashing cantatas" and "Looking glass pitchers" / Lawrence Hanley
  • Marching! marching! and the idea of the proletarian novel / Jon-Christian Suggs
  • Time, transmission, autonomy / David Jenemann and Andrew Knighton.

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