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Author:

Fisher, Laura R., author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2018039637

Title:

Reading for reform : the social work of literature in the Progressive Era / Laura R. Fisher.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

307 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

1900-1999
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
Books and reading--History--United States--History--20th century.
Social problems--United States--History--20th century.
American literature.
Books and reading--Social aspects.
Literature and society.
Social problems.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: the politics of proximity -- Sites of contact: the settlement house -- The problem with comparison: the working girls' club -- Correlation and conformity: from the African American college to the Harlem renaissance -- Forms of mediation: undercover literature -- Coda: twenty-first century afterlives.

ISBN:

9781517903831
1517903831

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1055832329

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)