New Deal Modernism
Subtitle: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: May 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780822325628
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History; English; Literary Criticism; USA; Modernism (Literature); American - General; American Studies; Literary Studies/American Lite; paper; American literature; 20th century; History and criticism; Politics and literature; United States
First sentence: Living with three tenant families in rural Alabama during the summer of 1936, gathering material for what would become Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), James Agee expresses profound misgivings about the fact that he is in some sense exploiting his hosts.