04161nam 2200793 a 450 991045179130332120200520144314.01-58729-475-3(CKB)1000000000459791(EBL)843174(OCoLC)66403617(SSID)ssj0000212500(PQKBManifestationID)11201656(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212500(PQKBWorkID)10139764(PQKB)10481875(MiAaPQ)EBC843174(MdBmJHUP)muse2983(Au-PeEL)EBL843174(CaPaEBR)ebr10354488(EXLCZ)99100000000045979120030924d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe novel and the American left[electronic resource] critical essays on Depression-era fiction /edited by Janet Galligani CaseyIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20041 online resource (237 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87745-880-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-210) and index.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.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 tAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismCommunism and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centurySocialism and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryRight and left (Political science)History20th centuryWorking class writings, AmericanHistory and criticismRight and left (Political science) in literatureProgressivism (United States politics)Depressions1929United StatesWorking class in literatureProgressivism in literatureDepressions in literatureElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticism.Communism and literatureHistorySocialism and literatureHistoryPolitics and literatureHistoryRight and left (Political science)HistoryWorking class writings, AmericanHistory and criticism.Right and left (Political science) in literature.Progressivism (United States politics)DepressionsWorking class in literature.Progressivism in literature.Depressions in literature.813/.5209358Casey Janet Galligani592501MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451791303321The novel and the American left2157394UNINA