The Novel and the American Left : Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction.
Title:
The Novel and the American Left : Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction.
Author:
Casey, Janet Galligani.
ISBN:
9781587294754
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (237 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction (Left) Contexts and Considerations -- Taking Tips and Losing Class: Challenging the Service Economy in James M. Cain's _Mildred Pierce_ by Donna M. Campbell -- "My Little Illegality" Abortion, Resistance, and Women Writers on the Left by Joy Castro -- Shriveled Breasts and Dollar Signs": The Gendered Rhetoric of Myra Page's Moscow Yankee by Angela Marie Smith -- Monstrous Modernism Disfigured Bodies and Literary Experimentalism in Yonnondio and Christ in Concrete by Joseph Entin -- The Objectivity of Nature in Josephine Herbst's _Rope of Gold_ by Karen Irr -- Agrarian Landscapes, the Depression, and Women'sProgressive Fiction by Janet Galligani Casey -- The Avengers of Christie Street: Racism and Jewish Working-Class Rebellion in Mike Gold's _Jews Without Money_ by Lee Bernstein -- "Smashing Cantatas" and "Looking Glass Pitchers "The Impossible Location of Proletarian Literature by Lawrence Hanley -- Marching! Marching!and the Idea of the Proletarian Novel by Jon-Christian Suggs -- Time, Transmission, Autonomy: What Praxis Means in the Novels of Kenneth Fearing by David Jenemann and Andrew Knighton -- Works Cited -- Radical Novels of the Depression Era: A Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
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 through reprints.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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