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Title:

The novel and the American left : critical essays on Depression-era fiction / edited by Janet Galligani Casey.

Publisher:

University of Iowa Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xviii, 216 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Communism and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Socialism and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Right and left (Political science)--History--20th century.
Working class writings, American--History and criticism.
Right and left (Political science) in literature.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Depressions--1929--United States.
Working class in literature.
Progressivism in literature.
Depressions in literature.

Other Authors:

Casey, Janet Galligani.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-210) and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Janet Galligani Casey -- Taking tips and losing class / Donna M. Campbell -- My little illegality / Joy Castro -- Shriveled breasts and dollar signs / Angela Marie Smith -- Monstrous modernism / Joseph Entin -- The objectivity of nature in Josephine Herbst's Rope of gold / Caren Irr -- Agrarian landscapes, the Depression, and women's prgressive fiction / Janet Galligani Casey -- The avengers of Christie Street / Lee Bernstein -- "Smashing cantatas" and "Looking glass pitchers" / Lawrence Hanley -- Marching! marching! and the idea of the proletarian novel / Jon-Christian Suggs -- Time, transmission, autonomy / David Jenemann and Andrew Knighton.

ISBN:

9780877458807 (acid-free paper)
0877458804 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53170193

LCCN:

2003066271

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)