TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barnard,Rita
TI  - The Great Depression and the culture of abundance: Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, and mass culture in the 1930s 
T2  - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
SN  - 0521450349
AV  - PS228.P67 B3763 1995
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Fearing, Kenneth,
KW  - West, Nathanael,
KW  - American literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Popular literature
KW  - United States
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - History
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Collective behavior in literature
KW  - Social problems in literature
KW  - Depressions in literature
KW  - Economics in literature
N1  - BIBINDX; 1. Introduction: Literature and Mass Culture in the Thirties -- 2. Hard Times, Modern Times -- 3. The Politics of Literary Failure: Fearing, Mass Culture, and the Canon -- 4. The Undercover Agent and the Culture of the Spectacle -- 5. "Zowie Did He Live and Zowie Did He Die": Mass Culture and the Fragmentation of Experience -- 6. "A Surfeit of Shoddy": West and the Spectacle of Culture -- 7. "When You Wish upon a Star": Fantasy, Experience, and Mass Culture -- 8. The Storyteller, the Novelist, and the Advice Columnist -- Epilogue: "Happy Ending."
ER  -