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Reading for reform : the social work of literature in the Progressive Era /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fisher, Laura R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
Subjects:
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Books and reading > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Social problems > United States > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the politics of proximity
  • Sites of contact: the settlement house
  • The problem with comparison: the working girls' club
  • Correlation and conformity: from the African American college to the Harlem renaissance
  • Forms of mediation: undercover literature
  • Coda: twenty-first century afterlives.