John Marsh

The Emotional Life of the Great Depression

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Produktbeschreibung

A new take on the Great Depression that offers a fresh perspective on the 1930s by expanding the canon of Great Depression emotions beyond despair and fear, and by mining a wonderfully eclectic archive of sources.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780198847731
• ISBN-10: 0198847734
• Artikelnr.: 57009305

Autorenporträt

John Marsh Associate Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of In Walt We Trust: How a Queer Socialist Poet Can Save America from Itself, Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way out of Inequality and Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry. In addition to these, he is the editor of You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-1941.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: The Emotional Life of the Great Depression
* 2: Purging the Rottenness from the System: The Blessed and the Damned
in the Great Depression
* 3: 'I Saw One Woman Faint': Toward a Sociology of Panic
* 4: Fear Itself: Polio, Unemployment, and Other Things on the Doorstep
* 5: Awe: Toward a Depression Sublime
* 6: A Sordid, Futureless Mess? Love in Hard Times
* 7: What You Want to Hear: Hope in the Great Depression
* 8: 'The Hazards and Vicissitudes of Life': The Emotional Life of the
Social Security Act