The American 1930s : a literary history / Peter Conn.
The American 1930s : a literary history / Peter Conn.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2009.
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N810.93587/2
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English
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xiv, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
A cultural and political timeline -- Introduction: History and literary history -- 1. Farewell to the twenties -- 2. Looking for America: The presence of the past -- 3. Lost and found: Historical fictions -- 4. Backward glances: Biography and autobiography -- 5. The Southern past -- 6. Black memory...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2009.
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England
Date Published
c2009.
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"Beginning with the stock market crash of 1929 and ending with America's entry into the Second World War, the long Depression decade was a period of immense social, economic and political turmoil. In response, writers as various as John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, Langston Hughes, Pearl S. Buck and others looked to the past to mak...
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The American 1930s : a literary history / Peter Conn.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2009.
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N810.93587/2
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74VvP4d38N2b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvP4d38N2b
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0521734312 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0521516404 (alk. paper)
9780521516402 (alk. paper)
9780521734318 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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810.935873917
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991005697869702626
