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New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State (Post-Contemporary Interventions) (edit title/settings)

by Michael Szalay (Author) (edit contributors)

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In New Deal Modernism Michael Szalay examines the effect that the rise of the welfare state had on American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s, and, conversely, what difference this revised modernism made to the New Deal’s famed invention of “Big Government.” Szalay situates his study... read more

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Living with three tenant families in rural Alabama during the summer of 1936, gathering material for what would become Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), James Agee expresses profound misgivings about the fact that he is in some sense exploiting his hosts.

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