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Nature, class, and New Deal literature : the country poor in the Great Depression / Stephen Fender.

Title
Nature, class, and New Deal literature : the country poor in the Great Depression / Stephen Fender.
Author
Fender, Stephen.
Publication
New York : Routledge, 2012.

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Description
viii, 231 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 17
Uniform Title
Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 17.
Subject
  • American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Depressions in literature
  • Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century
  • National characteristics, American, in literature
  • Nature in literature
  • New Deal, 1933-1939, in motion pictures
  • Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945 > Influence
  • Rural poor in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: Pessimistic progressives -- Nature and apocalypse: Okies and the New Deal in California -- A tale of two camps -- Matter out of place -- Who stole the folk's music? -- The WPA and the Southern country poor: life histories or case studies? -- The Southern life histories: the class factor -- The Dust Bowl on film -- Nature and naturalism in Steinbeck's labor fiction -- Conclusion: Erosion and retrieval: poor white identity and the limits of literature.
ISBN
  • 9780415896788 (alk. paper)
  • 0415896789 (alk. paper)
  • 9780203803226 (e-book)
  • 0203803221 (e-book)
LCCN
^^2011030922
OCLC
706022521
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library