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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Early Thirties Novels of Erskine Caldwell (Depression, Southern, Grotesque)
Abstract
dc:descriptionErskine Caldwell wrote his finest novels between 1930 and 1935. The three novels published during this period were perhaps his most unique, and certainly his most popular, contributions to American literature. God's Little Acre, Tobacco Road, and Journeyman described Georgia grotesques whose primitivism and overt sexuality drew the attention of millions of readers. A fourth novel of the period, "Autumn Hill," was less successful. About Maine rather than Georgia and unpublished until the early 1950s, it reveals some of the flaws that mar his lesser works.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Howard, William Leland
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8701512
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69454