... and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism. By Sean McCann. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. viii, 370 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State. By Michael Szalay. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. 343 pp. Cloth, $59.95...

...Susan Louise Edmunds This essay reads Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) against Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), the New Deal, and the intervening history of white women’s sentimental activism. It argues that Native Son is a work of domestic fiction that self-consciously engages...

... that, in concert, these two movements contributed to the erosion of the New Deal regulatory state by elevating psychological—rather than structural or socioeconomic—explanatory templates for social phenomena. In contrast to the literature of the long Progressive Era, in 1950s works the ego and its vicissitudes...

...Cristanne Miller Marianne Moore's war poems of the 1940s, and in particular “In Distrust of Merits,” have frequently been read as a compendium of didactic, clichéd, pious, overstated public pronouncements brought on by the immediate urgency of the war, “show[ing] too much the pressure of news...

... . New York : Vintage Books . Moten Fred . 2003 . In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . Natanson Nicholas . 1992 . The Black Image in the New Deal: The Politics of FSA Photography . Knoxville : Univ. of Tennessee...

..., 397–400. Edmunds, Susan Louise. “‘Just Like Home’: Richard Wright, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the New Deal,” 61–86. Ellis, Cristin. “Amoral Abolitionism: Frederick Douglass and the Environmen- tal Case against Slavery,” 275–303. Feeley, Lynne. Review: Murison, The Politics of Anxiety...

...,” but rather in inventing it. Two key influences of this invention are the New Deal nation-state and corporate capitalism. The popular fantasy of the folk seemed so utterly contrary to the destabilizing outcomes of capitalism— which included the historical vacuity of cultural standardization, economic...

...: Modern Poetry and the Material World . Berkeley, Los Angeles : Univ. of California Press . Fender Stephen . 2011 . Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature: The Country Poor in the Great Depression . New York : Routledge . Filreis Alan . 1994 . Modernism from Right to Left...

...” the rhetoric and politics of late twentieth-­century reformers. Cognitively, Swirksi considers these novels as “thought-­experiments” focusing on the calculated production of a better society. Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature: The Country Poor in the Great Depression. By Stephen Fender...

... sphere, from a New Deal–era “trust” in the capacity of the state to articulate the interests of a broad public to a spirit of “suspicion” that emerges with the New Left in the 1960s to (in Jürgen Haber- mas’s terminology) the “New Obscurity” of the postmodern era (35...

... sphere, from a New Deal–era “trust” in the capacity of the state to articulate the interests of a broad public to a spirit of “suspicion” that emerges with the New Left in the 1960s to (in Jürgen Haber- mas’s terminology) the “New Obscurity” of the postmodern era (35...

... sphere, from a New Deal–era “trust” in the capacity of the state to articulate the interests of a broad public to a spirit of “suspicion” that emerges with the New Left in the 1960s to (in Jürgen Haber- mas’s terminology) the “New Obscurity” of the postmodern era (35...

... to this degradation in order to constitute “a kind of late public sphere . . . as it encounters the mass publics of the twentieth century” (35). The book’s long historical arc traces the development of this public sphere, from a New Deal–era “trust” in the capacity of the state to articulate the interests...

... sphere, from a New Deal–era “trust” in the capacity of the state to articulate the interests of a broad public to a spirit of “suspicion” that emerges with the New Left in the 1960s to (in Jürgen Haber- mas’s terminology) the “New Obscurity” of the postmodern era (35...

... sphere, from a New Deal–era “trust” in the capacity of the state to articulate the interests of a broad public to a spirit of “suspicion” that emerges with the New Left in the 1960s to (in Jürgen Haber- mas’s terminology) the “New Obscurity” of the postmodern era (35...

... sphere, from a New Deal–era “trust” in the capacity of the state to articulate the interests of a broad public to a spirit of “suspicion” that emerges with the New Left in the 1960s to (in Jürgen Haber- mas’s terminology) the “New Obscurity” of the postmodern era (35...

... sphere, from a New Deal–era “trust” in the capacity of the state to articulate the interests of a broad public to a spirit of “suspicion” that emerges with the New Left in the 1960s to (in Jürgen Haber- mas’s terminology) the “New Obscurity” of the postmodern era (35...

... sphere, from a New Deal–era “trust” in the capacity of the state to articulate the interests of a broad public to a spirit of “suspicion” that emerges with the New Left in the 1960s to (in Jürgen Haber- mas’s terminology) the “New Obscurity” of the postmodern era (35...

... sphere, from a New Deal–era “trust” in the capacity of the state to articulate the interests of a broad public to a spirit of “suspicion” that emerges with the New Left in the 1960s to (in Jürgen Haber- mas’s terminology) the “New Obscurity” of the postmodern era (35...

... sphere, from a New Deal–era “trust” in the capacity of the state to articulate the interests of a broad public to a spirit of “suspicion” that emerges with the New Left in the 1960s to (in Jürgen Haber- mas’s terminology) the “New Obscurity” of the postmodern era (35...