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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction The Literature of the Welfare State 1
5. Chapter One ‘‘The Whole Question of What Writing Is’’: Jack London, the Literary Left, and the Federal Writers’ Project 24
6. Chapter Two The Politics of Textual Integrity: Ayn Rand, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway 75
7. Chapter Three Wallace Stevens and the Invention of Social Security 120
8. Chapter Four The Vanishing American Father: Sentiment and Labor in The Grapes of Wrath and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 162
9. Chapter Five ‘‘The Death of the Gallant Liberal’’: Robert Frost, Richard Wright, and Busby Berkeley 201
10. Conclusion New Deal Postmodernism 256
11. Notes 273
12. Index 331