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- catalog abstract ""The Novel and the American Left focuses exclusively on left-leaning fiction of the Depression era, lending visibility and increased critical validity to these works and showing the various ways in which they contributed not only to theorizations of the Left but also to debates about the content and form of American fiction. In theoretical terms, the collection as a whole contributes to the larger reconceptualization of American modernity currently under way. More pragmatically, individual essays suggest specific authors, texts, and approaches to teachers and scholars seeking to broaden and/or complicate more traditional "'American modernism" syllabi and research agendas." "The selected essays take up, among others, such "hard-core" leftist writers as Mike Gold and Myra Page, who were associated with the Communist Party; the popular novels of James M. Cain and Kenneth Fearing, whose works were made into successful films; and critically acclaimed but nonetheless "lost" novelists such as Josephine Johnson, whose Now in November (Pulitzer Prize, 1936) anticipates and complicates the more popular agrarian mythos of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath." "This volume will be of interest not only to literary specialists but also to historians, social scientists, and students of American cultural studies."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b13266051.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""The Novel and the American Left focuses exclusively on left-leaning fiction of the Depression era, lending visibility and increased critical validity to these works and showing the various ways in which they contributed not only to theorizations of the Left but also to debates about the content and form of American fiction. In theoretical terms, the collection as a whole contributes to the larger reconceptualization of American modernity currently under way. More pragmatically, individual essays suggest specific authors, texts, and approaches to teachers and scholars seeking to broaden and/or complicate more traditional "'American modernism" syllabi and research agendas." "The selected essays take up, among others, such "hard-core" leftist writers as Mike Gold and Myra Page, who were associated with the Communist Party; the popular novels of James M. Cain and Kenneth Fearing, whose works were made into successful films; and critically acclaimed but nonetheless "lost" novelists such as Josephine Johnson, whose Now in November (Pulitzer Prize, 1936) anticipates and complicates the more popular agrarian mythos of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath." "This volume will be of interest not only to literary specialists but also to historians, social scientists, and students of American cultural studies."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-210) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 216 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0877458804 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "813/.5209358 22".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Communism and literature United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Depressions 1929 United States.".
- catalog subject "Depressions in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS228.C6 N68 2004".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Progressivism (United States politics)".
- catalog subject "Progressivism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Right and left (Political science) History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Right and left (Political science) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Socialism and literature United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Working class in literature.".
- catalog subject "Working class writings, American History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "The novel and the American left : critical essays on depression-era fiction / edited by Janet Galligani Casey.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".