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The Modern American Novel of the Left : A Research Guide, Hardback Book

The Modern American Novel of the Left : A Research Guide Hardback

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Unique in its scope of coverage, this reference work provides students and scholars interested in researching modern American leftist and working-class culture with a convenient starting place for examining American leftist and working-class novels of the past century.

The book begins with a brief historical survey of the development of this cultural phenomenon.

It then offers brief descriptions of selected critical, historical, and theoretical works that are a useful background to the novels.

The bulk of the book comprises detailed alphabetically arranged discussions of more than 170 modern American novels of the Left, along with brief considerations of more than 240 other works. The novels discussed in detail include a number of works by major American authors, including John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Dreiser, and Upton Sinclair.

Also covered are works by a number of other writers in the rich but neglected tradition of American leftist literature.

These writers naturally include 1930s proletarian novelists such as Mike Gold, Agnes Smedley, Myra Page, Josephine Herbst, Tillie Olsen, Meridel Le Sueur, Jack Conroy, and Thomas Bell.

But they also include figures ranging from early twentieth-century socialists such as I.

K. Friedman and Leroy Scott, to African American novelists such as Richard Wright and Toni Morrison, to Chicano writers such as Alejandro Morales and Americo Paredes.

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