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A New Heartland investigates American rurality and modernity as mutually sustaining concepts, and centres on women's special engagement with those concepts. Among its central questions are the following: How has a critical emphasis on the modern-urban imaginary obscured rurality's importance to the American cultural consciousness? In what ways did received attitudes about rurality and nostalgia enable pronounced links between women and the rur...

A study of the the role of the 'feminine' in Dos Passos's fiction.

THE first collection of critical essays to focus specifically on the fiction produced by American novelists of the Depression era, "The Novel and the American Left contributes substantially to the newly emerging emphasis on twentieth-century American literary radicalism. Recent studies have recovered this body of work and redefined in historical and theoretical terms its vibrant contribution to American letters. Janet Galligani Casey consolida...

A study of the the role of the 'feminine' in Dos Passos's fiction.