{"product_id":"the-emotional-life-of-the-great-depression-9780198847731","title":"The Emotional Life of the Great Depression","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Emotional Life of the Great Depression\u003c\/em\u003e documents how Americans responded emotionally to the crisis of the Great Depression. Unlike most books about the 1930s, which focus almost exclusively on the despair of the American people during the decade, this volume explores the 1930s through\u003cbr\u003eother, equally essential emotions: righteousness, panic, fear, awe, love, and hope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn expanding the canon of Great Depression emotions, the book draws on an eclectic archive of sources, including the ravings of a would-be presidential assassin, stock market investment handbooks, a Cleveland serial murder case, Jesse Owens's record-setting long jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, \u003cbr\u003eKing Edward VIII's abdication from his throne to marry a twice-divorced American woman, and the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. In concert with these, it offers new readings of the imaginative literature of the period, from obscure Christian apocalyptic novels and H.P. Lovecraft short stories to\u003cbr\u003eclassics like John Steinbeck's \u003cem\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/em\u003e and Richard Wright's \u003cem\u003eNative Son\u003c\/em\u003e. The result is a new take on the Great Depression, one that emphasizes its major events (the stock market crash, unemployment, the passage of the Social Security Act) but also, and perhaps even more so, its\u003cbr\u003esensibilities, its structures of feeling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Marsh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198847731\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Marsh, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor of English, The Pennsylvania State University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Marsh Associate Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eIn Walt We Trust: How a Queer Socialist Poet Can Save America from Itself, Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way out of Inequality\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eand the Making of Modern American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. In addition to these, he is the editor of \u003cem\u003eYou Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-1941\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40364678807667,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":85.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_f15c732b-d945-4e3c-9b3f-eecdc489dcca.jpg?v=1660664766","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-emotional-life-of-the-great-depression-9780198847731","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}