Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-368) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Modern overflow -- Disaster's public. A northern army of relief -- Cross talk in the press -- Bessie's eclogue -- Catastrophe comes to Vaudeville -- Modernism within a second nature. William Faulkner and the machine age watershed -- Richard Wright : environment, media, and race -- Conclusion : Noah's kin.
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