Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature: The Country Poor in the Great Depression

ISBN-13: 9780415896788 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 244 str.

Stephen Fender

Opis

Working through close rhetorical analysis of everything from fiction and journalism to documents and documentaries, this book looks at how popular memory favors the country depression over the economic crisis in the nation's cities and factories.

Spis treści

Contents  List of Illustrations  Acknowledgements  Introduction: Pessimistic Progressives  I: Climate: The myth of the Dust Bowl  1: Nature and Apocalypse: Okies and the New Deal in California  2: A Tale of Two Camps  3: Matter Out of Place  4: Who Stole the Folk’s Music?  II: Geography: Social Stasis in the Southern Life Histories  5: The WPA and the Southern Country Poor: Life Histories or Case Studies?  6: The Southern Life Histories: The Class Factor  III: . Madonnas and Christ Figures  7: The Dust Bowl on Film  8: Nature and Naturalism in Steinbeck’s Labor Fiction  Conclusion: Erosion and Retrieval: Poor White Identity and the Limits of Literature

O autorze

Stephen Fender has taught at Edinburgh, London and Sussex, as well as in America. His books include Plotting the Golden West: (Cambridge, 1982), and Sea Changes: British Emigration and American Literature (Cambridge, 1992.) He is now Honorary Professor of English at University College London, UK.