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American drama --- Depressions in literature. --- Depressions --- Grotesque in literature. --- Theater --- History and criticism. --- History

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This Companion offers a compelling survey of American literature in the 1930s. These thirteen new essays by accomplished scholars in the field provide re-examinations of crucial trends in the decade: the rise of the proletarian novel; the intersection of radical politics and experimental aesthetics; the documentary turn; the rise of left-wing theatres; popular fictional genres; the impact of Marxist thought on African-American historical writing; the relation of modernist prose to mass entertainment. Placing such issues in their political and economic contexts, this Companion constitutes an excellent introduction to a vital area of critical and scholarly inquiry. This collection also functions as a valuable reference guide to Depression-era cultural practice, furnishing readers with a chronology of important historical events in the decade and crucial publication dates, as well as a wide-ranging bibliography for those interested in reading further into the field.

American literature --- Literature and society --- Popular literature --- Depressions in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History

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The American Stage and the Great Depression: A Cultural History of the Grotesque proposes a correlation between the divided "mind" of America during the depression and popular stage works of the era. Theatre works such as Jack Kirkland's comic-horrific adaptation of Tobacco Road, Olsen and Johnson's "scream-lined revue," Hellzapoppin, and successful plays by Robert E. Sherwood, Clare Boothe Luce, and S.N. Behrman are interpreted as theatrical reflections of depression culture's sense of being trapped between a discredited past and a nightmarish future. The author analyzes the America of the 1930s as an era of the "grotesque," in which the irreconcilable were forced into tense and dynamic coexistence, and by examining these works of theatre as products of particular historical circumstances, argues for a strong connection between cultural history and theatre history.

American drama --- Depressions --- Theater --- Depressions in literature. --- Grotesque in literature. --- Depressions in literature --- Grotesque in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Commercial crises --- Crises, Commercial --- Economic depressions --- Business cycles --- Recessions --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism

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Depressions in literature --- Labor camps in literature --- Migrant agricultural laborers in literature --- Rural families in literature --- Steinbeck, John, --- California --- In literature.

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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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