New deal modernism : American literature and the invention of the welfare state / Michael Szalay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szalay, Michael, 1967-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Post-contemporary interventions.

Post-contemporary interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Influence.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Public welfare--United States--History--20th century.

Public welfare.

Invention (Rhetoric)--History--20th century.

Invention (Rhetoric).

Social problems in literature.

New Deal, 1933-1939.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

1. "The whole question of what writing is" : Jack London, the literary left, and the federal writers'

2. The politics of textual integrity : Ayn Rand, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway

3. Wallace Steven and the invention of Social Security

4. The vanishing American father : sentiment and labor in The Grapes of wrath and A Tree goes in Brooklyn

5. "The death of the gallant liberal" : Robert Frost, Richard Wright, and Busby Berkeley

Conclusion : New Deal postmodernism

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612903908

9781282903906

128290390X

9780822381143

0822381141

OCLC:

841913184