Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Casey, Janet Galligani.

Description

1. xviii, 216 p.; 25 cm.

Subject

1. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
2. Communism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
3. Socialism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
4. Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century
5. Right and left (Political science) > History > 20th century
6. Working class writings, American > History and criticism
7. Right and left (Political science) in literature
8. Progressivism (United States politics)
9. Depressions > 1929 > United States
10. Working class in literature
11. Progressivism in literature
12. Depressions in literature

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFE 04-10170

Bibliography (note)

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

Title

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

Imprint

1. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2004.

Bibliography

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

Added author

1. Casey, Janet Galligani.

LCCN

1. 2003066271

ISBN

1. 0877458804 (acid-free paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 04-10170