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New Deal Modernism
American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State
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Michael Szalay
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Edited by:
Stanley Fish
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2000
About this book
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
Author / Editor information
Michael Szalay is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at University of California, Irvine.
Reviews
“New Deal Modernism tells a strikingly new story about the relations of literature to political agency. Szalay’s work will be a welcome provocation, both to left revisionist scholarship on cultural politics and to the historiography of U.S. modernism.”—Sara Blair, University of Michigan
“An argument of striking range and precision. Oppositions of left and right, realist and modernist will look different from now on. A terrific book.”—Richard Ohmann, Wesleyan University
“Szalay brilliantly relates aesthetic debates of the 1930s to debates over how art might survive economic conditions in which art objects have little chance of competing with basic economic necessities. Szalay’s unique contribution is to show exactly how, in providing insurance against the market, the New Deal reinvented the project of making art.”—Frances Ferguson, Johns Hopkins University
“Through its frank assessment of New Deal culture, Szalay’s book adds mightily to the renascence of history-minded revisions of literary modernism. If you want to know how literary citizenship connected with the social motion of state initiatives like the Social Security Administration or the Federal Arts Project, then this is a very good place to begin.”—Andrew Ross, New York University
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eBook published on:
December 29, 2000
eBook ISBN:
9780822381143
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
352
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8 b&w photographs
