The Effects Of The Great Depression

This book analyses the unique literary era of the 1930’s and the effects of the Great Depression on the literary landscape of the time. While the bulk of the works referenced and used in this book, Conn also utilizes painting and pictures to further broadened his analysis. All of the books, paintings, and plays contained in this book contributed to a popular theme of the time which was drawing from the past to respond to the present time that they were enduring. While the 1930’s the years of the Great Depression were socially and economically disastrous, Conn argues that the time was imaginatively complex. The past was incredibly important to the people and writers of this time because amidst the turmoil of the Great Depression the people of