Szalay / Fish / Jameson New Deal Modernism

American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8114-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

Argues that the writers of the 30s and 40s--Hemingway, Ayn Rand, John Dos Passos, Gertrude Stein, Richard Wright, Wallace Stevens et al. -- identified and understood the formal problems of literary modernism through an idea of the social and an idiom of s

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szalay, Michael

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

3. Wallace Stevens and the Invention of Social Security

4. The Vanishing American Father: Sentiment and Labor in The Grapes of Wrath and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

5. “The Death of the Gallant Liberal”: Robert Frost, Richard Wright, and Busby Berkeley

Conclusion: New Deal Postmodernism

Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Szalay is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at University of California, Irvine.