"Through its frank assessment of New Deal culture, Szalay's book adds mightily to the renascence of history-minded revisions of literary modernism. If you want to know how literary citizenship connected with the social motion of state initiatives like the Social Security Administration or the Federal Arts Project, then this is a very good place to begin."--Andrew Ross, New York University
"Through its frank assessment of New Deal culture, Szalay's book adds mightily to the renascence of history-minded revisions of literary modernism. If you want to know how literary citizenship connected with the social motion of state initiatives like the Social Security Administration or the Federal Arts Project, then this is a very good place to begin."--Andrew Ross, New York University
Michael Szalay is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at University of California, Irvine.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The Literature of the Welfare State 1. “The Whole Question of What Writing Is”: Jack London, the Literary Left, and the Federal Writers’ Project > 2. The Politics of Textual Integrity: Ayn Rand, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway > 3. Wallace Stevens and the Invention of Social Security > 4. The Vanishing American Father: Sentiment and Labor in The Grapes of Wrath and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn > 5. “The Death of the Gallant Liberal”: Robert Frost, Richard Wright, and Busby Berkeley Conclusion: New Deal Postmodernism Notes Index
Introduction: The Literature of the Welfare State 1. “The Whole Question of What Writing Is”: Jack London, the Literary Left, and the Federal Writers’ Project > 2. The Politics of Textual Integrity: Ayn Rand, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway > 3. Wallace Stevens and the Invention of Social Security > 4. The Vanishing American Father: Sentiment and Labor in The Grapes of Wrath and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn > 5. “The Death of the Gallant Liberal”: Robert Frost, Richard Wright, and Busby Berkeley Conclusion: New Deal Postmodernism Notes Index
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