Literature at the Barricades: The American Writer in the 1930s

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction ix 1 Part I. Writers and Politics: The Challenge of the Social Muse 1. Irving Howe The Thirties in Retrospect 13 2. Josephine Herbst Yesterday's Road 29 3. Townsend Ludington Friendship Won't Stand That: John Howard Lawson and John Dos Passos's Struggle for an Ideological Ground to Stand On 46 Part II. The Triumph of Literature: Writing Is Not Operating a Bombing-Plane 4. Donald Pizer James T. Farrell and the 1930s 69 5. Sylvia Jenkins Cook Steinbeck, the People, and the Party 82 6. Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Trouble on the Land: Southern Literature and the Great Depression 96 7. Victor A. Kramer The Consciousness of Technique: The Prose Method of James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 114 8. Jack B. Moore The View from the Broom Closet of the Regency Hyatt: Richard Wright as a Southern Writer 126 9. Glenda Hobbs Starting Out in the Thirties: Harriette Arnow's Literary Genesis 144 10. Hugh Kenner Oppen, Zukofsky, and the Poem as Lens 162 Part III. Criticism and the 1930s: Trials of the Mind 11. Daniel Aaron Edmund Wilson's Political Decade 175 12. Alan Wald Revolutionary Intellectuals: Partisan Review in the 1930s 187 13. James T. Farrell The End of a Literary Decade 204 Notes 211 Contributors 225 Index 228 ...