num_pages: 360
description: This study examines the relationship between society and literature and shows how the proletarian novel, a literary phenomenon of the 1930s, was a reflection of current interest in revolutionary Marxism. Also discussed are the reasons why literary critics of the following decades dismissed these writings as bizarre and improbable and questioned how the writers could have so badly miscalculated the future.
language: English
title: The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954
titlecomplete: The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Columbia University Press