In contrast to most studies of literature from the Great Depression which focus on representations of poverty, labor, and radicalism, this project analyzes popular representations of middle class life.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction: Popular Women’s Literature, Class, and the Great Depression 1. History, Normalcy, and Daily Life: Margaret Ayer Barnes and Jessie Redmon Fauset 2. Women Exploring Class: Fannie Hurst, Edna Ferber, and Katharine Brush 3. Family Life in Depressed America: Josephine Johnson and Josephine Lawrence 4. Single Women, Violence, and Class: Mary Roberts Rinehart 5. Professional Women, Work, and Romance: Gale Wilhelm, Fannie Cook, and Dawn Powell
Om författaren
Jennifer Haytock is Professor and Chair in the English Department at The College at Brockport, SUNY, USA, where she teaches twentieth-century American literature. She has published At Home, At War: Domesticity and World War I in American Literature and Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism, as well as articles on Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, and more.
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