Nature, class, and New Deal literature : the country poor in the Great Depression / / Stephen Fender.

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Superior document:Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 17
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 17.
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Physical Description:viii, 231 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Pessimistic progressives
  • Nature and apocalypse: Okies and the New Deal in California
  • A tale of two camps
  • Matter out of place
  • Who stole the folk's music?
  • The WPA and the Southern country poor: life histories or case studies?
  • The Southern life histories: the class factor
  • The Dust Bowl on film
  • Nature and naturalism in Steinbeck's labor fiction
  • Conclusion: Erosion and retrieval: poor white identity and the limits of literature.