The Middle Class in the Great Depression

Popular Women's Novels of the 1930s
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-45634-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 205 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2776 g

Reihe: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haytock, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.