{"product_id":"emotional-life-of-the-great-depression-hardcover","title":"Emotional Life of the Great Depression - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Marsh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 other, equally essential emotions: righteousness, panic, fear, awe, love, and hope. \u003c\/p\u003e\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, King 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 classics 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 sensibilities, its structures of feeling.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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, and 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\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 318\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.3 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 31, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753966207264,"sku":"9780198847731","price":104.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/cec11f2a0b4f170bc51818ffee049ca9.webp?v=1780030475","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/emotional-life-of-the-great-depression-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}