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UNINA9910778920003321 |
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Autore |
Fender Stephen |
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Nature, class, and New Deal literature : the country poor in the Great Depression / / Stephen Fender |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-63227-1 |
1-283-44271-X |
9786613442710 |
0-203-80322-1 |
1-136-63228-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (234 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; ; 17 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Rural poor in literature |
Depressions in literature |
National characteristics, American, in literature |
Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century |
New Deal, 1933-1939, in motion pictures |
Nature in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-219) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Pessimistic progressives -- Nature and apocalypse: Okies and the New Deal in California -- A tale of two camps -- Matter out of place -- Who stole the folk's music? -- The WPA and the Southern country poor: life histories or case studies? -- The Southern life histories: the class factor -- The Dust Bowl on film -- Nature and naturalism in Steinbeck's labor fiction -- Conclusion: Erosion and retrieval: poor white identity and the limits of literature. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Working through close rhetorical analysis of everything from fiction and journalism to documents and documentaries, this book looks at how popular memory favors the country Depression over the economic crisis in the nation's cities and factories. Over eighty years after it happened, the Depression still lives on in iconic images of country poor |
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