How Long to Read Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature

How Long Does it Take to Read Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 57 minutes to read Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature by Stephen Fender

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Working through close rhetorical analysis of everything from fiction and journalism to documents and documentaries, this book looks at how popular memory favors the country Depression over the economic crisis in the nation’s cities and factories. Over eighty years after it happened, the Depression still lives on in iconic images of country poor whites – in the novels of John Steinbeck, the photographs of Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein, the documentary films of Pare Lorenz and the thousands of share-croppers’ life histories as taken down by the workers of the Federal Writers’ Project. Like the politicians and bureaucrats who accomplished the New Deal’s radical reforms in banking, social security and labor union law, the artists, novelists and other writers who supported or even worked for the New Deal were idealists, well to the left of center in their politics. Yet when it came to hard times on the American farm, something turned them into unwitting reactionaries. Though they brought these broken lives of the country poor to the notice and sympathy of the public, they also worked unconsciously to undermine their condition. How and why? Fender shows how the answer lies in clues overlooked until now, hidden in their writing -- their journalism and novels, the "life histories" they ghost wrote for their poor white clients, the bureaucratic communications through which they administered these cultural programs, even in the documentary photographs and movies, with their insistent captions and voice-overs. This book is a study of literary examples from in and around the country Depression, and the myths on which they drew.

How long is Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature?

Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature by Stephen Fender is 234 pages long, and a total of 59,436 words.

This makes it 79% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 24 minutes to read Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature aloud.

What Reading Level is Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature?

Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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