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Three Essays on Working Class Literature

Three Essays on Working Class Literature

Davin, Eric Leif

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Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 1304562719
ISBN13: 9781304562715
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: Mar 17 2024
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book discusses three classic examples of working class literature: Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis, The New Masses magazine, and the 1930s protest literature of Clifford Odets. Rebecca Harding Davis wrote Life in the Iron Mills in 1861. It was the first work of fiction to describe the lives of the new antebellum working class of industrializing America. It was also an exploration of how class and gender intersected to share a common burden of oppression and hope. The New Masses was America's leading leftist literary journal of the 1930s and 1940s. It attempted to legitimize a subject seldom treated in the literature of the time: The common man and the working life. Clifford Odets was a founding member of the radical 1930s theater troupe, the Group Theater and the leading radical playwright of the 1930s. He was also a pioneer writer of the Jewish immigrant experience in America. This book is an overview of these writers and their works and their places in American popular culture.

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