New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State Book

Contents

Acknowledgments....................vii
Introduction The Literature of the Welfare State....................1
Chapter One "The Whole Question of What Writing Is": Jack London, the Literary Left, and the Federal Writers' Project....................24
Chapter Two The Politics of Textual Integrity: Ayn Rand, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway....................75
Chapter Three Wallace Stevens and the Invention of Social Security....................120
Chapter Four The Vanishing American Father: Sentiment and Labor in The Grapes of Wrath and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn....................162
Chapter Five "The Death of the Gallant Liberal": Robert Frost, Richard Wright, and Busby Berkeley....................201
Conclusion New Deal Postmodernism....................256
Notes....................273
Index....................331