New Deal Modernism - American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State

"Through its frank assessment of New Deal culture, Szalay's book adds mightily to the renascence of history-minded revisions of literary modernism. If you want to know how literary citizenship connected with the social motion of state initiatives like the Social Security Administration or the Federal Arts Project, then this is a very good place to begin."--Andrew Ross, New York University

Sommario

Introduction: The Literature of the Welfare State

1. “The Whole Question of What Writing Is”: Jack London, the Literary Left, and the Federal Writers’ Project>
2. The Politics of Textual Integrity: Ayn Rand, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway
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3. Wallace Stevens and the Invention of Social Security
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4. The Vanishing American Father: Sentiment and Labor in The Grapes of Wrath and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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5. “The Death of the Gallant Liberal”: Robert Frost, Richard Wright, and Busby Berkeley

Conclusion: New Deal Postmodernism

Notes

Index

Info autore

Michael Szalay

Riassunto

Examines the effect that the rise of the welfare state had on American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s and, conversely, what difference modernism made to the New Deal's famed invention of "Big Government."

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Szalay, Michael Szalay
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 29.12.2000
• EAN: 9780822325765
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2576-5
• Pagine: 352
• Peso: 862 g
• Illustrazioni: 8 b&w photographs
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese