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

by Stephen Fender

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. Over eighty years after it happened, the Depression still lives on in iconic images of country poor whites - in the novels of John Steinbeck, the photographs of Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415896789
• ISBN13: 9780415896788
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"