Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature: The Country Poor in the Great Depression by Stephen Fender

Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature: The Country Poor in the Great Depression

Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

Stephen Fender

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For readers fascinated by the intersection of literature, history, and social justice, Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature: The Country Poor in the Great Depression by Stephen Fender offers a captivating exploration of how the country's most iconic writers inadvertently perpetuated myths about the rural poor during the Great Depression, making it a must-read for anyone interested in the complex relationships between art, politics, and the human experience.

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Working through close rhetorical analysis of everything from fiction and journalism to documents and documentaries, this book looks at how popular memory favors the country Depression over the economic crisis in the nation's cities and factories. ...

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