The Novel and the American Left: Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction (Left) Contexts and Considerations janet galligani casey ix Taking Tips and Losing Class Challenging the Service Economy in James M. Cain’s Mildred Pierce donna m. campbell 1 “My Little Illegality” Abortion, Resistance, and Women Writers on the Left joy castro 16 “Shriveled Breasts and Dollar Signs” The Gendered Rhetoric of Myra Page’s Moscow Yankee angela marie smith 35 Monstrous Modernism Disfigured Bodies and Literary Experimentalism in Yonnondio and Christ in Concrete joseph entin 61 The Objectivity of Nature in Josephine Herbst’s Rope of Gold caren irr 81 Agrarian Landscapes, the Depression, and Women’s Progressive Fiction janet galligani casey 96 The Avengers of Christie Street Racism and Jewish Working-Class Rebellion in Mike Gold’s Jews Without Money lee bernstein 118 “Smashing Cantatas” and “Looking Glass Pitchers” The Impossible Location of Proletarian Literature lawrence hanley 132 Marching! Marching! and the Idea of the Proletarian Novel jon-christian suggs 151 Time, Transmission, Autonomy What Praxis Means in the Novels of Kenneth Fearing david jenemann and andrew knighton 172 Works Cited 195 Radical Novels of the Depression Era: A Selected Bibliography 209 Contributors 211 Index 213 ...