The novel and the American left critical essays on Depression-era fiction / [electronic resource] : edited by Janet Galligani Casey. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2004. - xviii, 216 p.

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

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 progressive 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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Communism and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Socialism and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Politics and literature--History--United States--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--United States.--1929
Working class in literature.
Progressivism in literature.
Depressions in literature.


Electronic books.

PS228.C6 / N68 2004

813/.5209358