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New deal modernism
American literature and the invention of the welfare state
By Szalay, Michael
- ISBN
- 978-0-82232-562-8
- Publisher
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 15, 2000
In our era of vociferous strife over public arts funding, Szalay (English, Fordham Univ.) usefully outlines the government's role in establishing the social category of the artist as it is understood today. Although the welfare state typically fails to excite politically motivated critics, a wide range of American authors favored by such readers centered their works around the New Deal. In the works of anti-New Dealers such as Erne...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
