The Cambridge Companion to American Literature of the 1930s\n\nOffers a timely introduction to the intersection of radical politics and American literature in the period of the Great Depression.\n\nWilliam Solomon (Edited by)\n\n9781108453226, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 20 September 2018\n\n290 pages\n22.9 x 15.4 x 1.4 cm, 0.5 kg\n\nThis 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 vi]