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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 421–423.
Published: 01 June 2002
... 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...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 198–200.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State . By Susan Edmunds. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 258 pp. $55.00. Book Reviews
Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System. By Michelle
Burnham. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press. 2007. viii, 222 pp...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 61–86.
Published: 01 March 2014
... the history of sentimental and domestic discourse in the United States and the pivotal role that discourse played in the formation of a two-track US welfare state. Attentive to the racist effects of the New Deal’s long-term provisions for African Americans, Wright’s novel gives us the story of a marginal man...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 411–441.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Karah M. Mitchell Abstract At the turn of the twentieth century, animal welfare work occupied an increasingly prominent position in the United States, with women’s animal autobiographies serving particularly formative roles in teaching child readers “humane” values. During this same period, felines...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 769–798.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., internal arena of an existential psyche. These shifts in literary tastes, the essay argues, augmented the weakening intellectual purchase of an interventionist New Deal reform agenda during the 1950s. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 New Deal welfare state detective fiction psychoanalysis...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Women , edited by Bennett Michael Dickerson Vanessa , 97 – 122 . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . Gordon Linda . 1991 . “ The New Feminist Scholarship on the Welfare State .” In Women, the State, and Welfare , edited by Gordon Linda , 9 – 35 . Madison : Univ...
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Rescued Children and Unfit Mothers: Dreiser’s Social Work in the Delineator ’s Child-Rescue Campaign
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 57–89.
Published: 01 March 2017
... during its campaign, which ran from 1907 to 1911 (Berebitsky 2009 , 124). And while children that the Delineator featured in its pages were those who lived in orphanages, as historians of social welfare in the United States have observed, most children in institutional care were not actually orphans...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 573–584.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., and subjects long excluded from public view clamored for recognition. The great political triumph of the New Deal era—its creation of a modern welfare state rooted in redistributionist benefits like social security—was enabled by a distinctively stereoscopic gaze, one that superimposed the particular faces...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 177–184.
Published: 01 March 2013
... decon-
struct the welfare state (by restricting visas for “unskilled workers” in
favor of increasing visas for family members, who are then deemed the
financial responsibility of the resident families rather than the state)
and to increase immigrant vulnerability to heteronormative commu-
nity...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 333–361.
Published: 01 June 2013
... of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Univ. Press . Szalay Michael . 2000 . New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Thurston Michael . 2001 . Making Something...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 141–170.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Howard . 1994 . Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s . 2nd ed. New York : Routledge . First published 1986. Robbins Bruce . 2007 . Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State . Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 664–666.
Published: 01 September 2012
... their titular subject matters across multiple texts. Opening with a dis-
cussion of Trilling’s sense that “the ideological and bureaucratic rigidity of
the welfare state” following world War II could only be dissolved by improving
the “cultural education” of those working in “minor intellectual professions...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 666–668.
Published: 01 September 2012
... are comparable and familiar in the sense that both
trace their titular subject matters across multiple texts. Opening with a dis-
cussion of Trilling’s sense that “the ideological and bureaucratic rigidity of
the welfare state” following world War II could only be dissolved by improving...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 657–659.
Published: 01 September 2012
... are comparable and familiar in the sense that both
trace their titular subject matters across multiple texts. Opening with a dis-
cussion of Trilling’s sense that “the ideological and bureaucratic rigidity of
the welfare state” following world War II could only be dissolved by improving...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 659–661.
Published: 01 September 2012
... are comparable and familiar in the sense that both
trace their titular subject matters across multiple texts. Opening with a dis-
cussion of Trilling’s sense that “the ideological and bureaucratic rigidity of
the welfare state” following world War II could only be dissolved by improving...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 662–664.
Published: 01 September 2012
... are comparable and familiar in the sense that both
trace their titular subject matters across multiple texts. Opening with a dis-
cussion of Trilling’s sense that “the ideological and bureaucratic rigidity of
the welfare state” following world War II could only be dissolved by improving...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 668–670.
Published: 01 September 2012
... are comparable and familiar in the sense that both
trace their titular subject matters across multiple texts. Opening with a dis-
cussion of Trilling’s sense that “the ideological and bureaucratic rigidity of
the welfare state” following world War II could only be dissolved by improving...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 670–672.
Published: 01 September 2012
... are comparable and familiar in the sense that both
trace their titular subject matters across multiple texts. Opening with a dis-
cussion of Trilling’s sense that “the ideological and bureaucratic rigidity of
the welfare state” following world War II could only be dissolved by improving...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 673–675.
Published: 01 September 2012
... their titular subject matters across multiple texts. Opening with a dis-
cussion of Trilling’s sense that “the ideological and bureaucratic rigidity of
the welfare state” following world War II could only be dissolved by improving
the “cultural education” of those working in “minor intellectual professions...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 675–677.
Published: 01 September 2012
... are comparable and familiar in the sense that both
trace their titular subject matters across multiple texts. Opening with a dis-
cussion of Trilling’s sense that “the ideological and bureaucratic rigidity of
the welfare state” following world War II could only be dissolved by improving...
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