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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819317803321

Titolo

The novel and the American left : critical essays on Depression-era fiction / / edited by Janet Galligani Casey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2004

ISBN

1-58729-475-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CaseyJanet Galligani

Disciplina

813/.5209358

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 this body of work and redefined in historical and theoretical terms its vibrant contribution to American letters. Casey consolidates and expands this field of study by providing a more specific consideration of individual novels and novelists, many of which are reaching new contemporary audiences t