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American literature of the thirties

The "proletarian decade" of the 1930's, the era of the Great Depression, while a time of economic stagnation, was a fertile period of growth for the American novel. Lecturer Leslie Fiedler surveys the major and popular writers of this decade as well as three writers whose works have been unjustly neglected by critics: Henry Roth, Nathanel West, and Margaret Mitchell.

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