Nature, class, and New Deal literature
Subtitle: the country poor in the Great Depression
By: Stephen Fender
Series: Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature -- 17
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780415896788; 9780203803226
Subjects: New Deal, 1933-1939, in motion pictures; Literature and society; American literature; History and criticism; Influence; Nature in literature; Depressions in literature; Rural poor in literature; American in literature National characteristics; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Pessimistic progressives; title: Nature and apocalypse: Okies and the New Deal in California; title: A tale of two camps; title: Matter out of place; title: Who stole the folk's music?; title: The WPA and the Southern country poor: life histories or case studies?; title: The Southern life histories: the class factor; title: The Dust Bowl on film; title: Nature and naturalism in Steinbeck's labor fiction; title: Conclusion: Erosion and retrieval: poor white identity and the limits of literature.