New Deal Modernism : American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State /

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In New Deal Modernism Michael Szalay examines the effect that the rise of the welfare state had on American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s, and, conversely, what difference this revised modernism made to the New Deal's famed invention of "Big Government."Szalay situates his stud...

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Autor principal: Szalay, Michael (Autor)
Otros Autores: Fish, Stanley (Editor ), Jameson, Fredric (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2000]
Colección:Post-Contemporary Interventions : 31
Temas:
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Invention (Rhetoric) > History > 20th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Public welfare > United States > History > 20th century.
Social problems in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction The Literature of the Welfare State
  • Chapter One ''The Whole Question of What Writing Is'': Jack London, the Literary Left, and the Federal Writers' Project
  • Chapter Two The Politics of Textual Integrity: Ayn Rand, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway
  • Chapter Three Wallace Stevens and the Invention of Social Security
  • Chapter Four The Vanishing American Father: Sentiment and Labor in The Grapes of Wrath and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • Chapter Five ''The Death of the Gallant Liberal'': Robert Frost, Richard Wright, and Busby Berkeley
  • Conclusion New Deal Postmodernism
  • Notes
  • Index

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