Modernism and the Practice of Proletarian Literature

By Simon Cooper

Book Overview

1. 'Yes, but is it Art?' The Revolutionary Transformations of Michael Gold.- 2. The Longing for a Line: Modernism Meets the New Deal.- 3. 'A Moment of Ecstasy, a Lifetime of Regret': the Popular Limits of the Proletarian.- 4. The Bastard as Art Object Bastardized: Erskine Caldwell's Fine Art of Standing Still.- 5. Gladiators in the Century of Progress: the World's Fairs, Pulp Modernism and the Popular Contests of the 1930s.- 6. Affirming the Modernist Principle: Invisible Man, Blues Signifiers and the Return of the Bottom Dogs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030351971
• ISBN13: 9783030351977
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"