Title: Reading for reform : the social work of literature in the Progressive Era /
Authors: Fisher, Laura R.
Year: 2019
Subjects: American literature History and criticism; Literature and society United States History; Books and reading Social aspects United States History; Social problems United States History
Contents: Introduction: the politics of proximity -- Sites of contact: the settlement house -- The problem with comparison: the working girls' club -- Correlation and conformity: from the African American college to the Harlem renaissance -- Forms of mediation: undercover literature -- Coda: twenty-first century afterlives.