Nature, class, and New Deal literature : the country poor in the Great Depression - Fender, Stephen (New York : Routledge, 2012)
Introduction: Pessimistic progressives -- Nature and apocalypse: Okies and the New Deal in California -- A tale of two camps -- Matter out of place -- Who stole the folk's music? -- The WPA and the Southern country poor: life histories or case studies? -- The Southern life histories: the class factor -- The Dust Bowl on film -- Nature and naturalism in Steinbeck's labor fiction -- Conclusion: Erosion and retrieval: poor white identity and the limits of literature.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-219) and index.
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Keywords: Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- 1882-1945 -- Influence; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Rural poor in literature; Depressions in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century; New Deal, 1933-1939, in motion pictures; Nature in literature; Electronic books