This collection captures the sense--at times the ordeal--of the
1930s literary experience in America. Fourteen essayists deal with
the experience of being a writer in a time of overwhelming economic
depression and political ferment, and thereby illuminate the
social, political, intellectual, and aesthetic problems and
pressures that characterized the experience of American writers and
influenced their works.
The essays, as a group, constitute a reevaluation of the
American literature of the 1930s. At the same time they support and
reinforce certain assumptions about the decade of the Great
Depression--that it was grim, desperate, a time when dreams died
and poverty became something other than genteel--they challenge
other assumptions, chief among them in the notion that 1930s
literature was uniform in content, drab in style, anti-formalist,
and always political or sociological in nature. They leave us with
an impression that there was variety in American writing of the
1930s and a convincing argument that the decade was not a retreat
from the modernism of the 1920s. Rather it was a transitional
period in which literary modernism was very much an issue and a
force that bore imaginative fruit.
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