The Middle Class in the Great Depression: Popular Women's Novels of the 1930s

Haytock, Jennifer

ISBN 10: 1137309164 / ISBN 13: 9781137309167

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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224 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.62 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Middle Class in the Great Depression: Popular Women's Novels of the 1930s
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137309164
• ISBN 13: 9781137309167
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.39 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.