Prophets in Babylon: Five California Novelists in the 1930s (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820417509)

Vendor: Margaret C. Jones
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Format: Hardcover
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Prophets in Babylon: Five California Novelists in the 1930s

$45.95

Prophets in Babylon: Five California Novelists in the 1930s

$45.95
Format: Hardcover
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Prophets in Babylon offers a wholly original perspective on affinities among five California novelists who wrote in the Depression decade. Writers as disparate as Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, Arnold B. Armstrong and Nathanael West all respond to the social and economic uncertainties of the period by the creation of prophet-figures moral teachers, visionaries, or sacrificial messiahs. These figures build on specifically Californian traditions of utopian experiments to reflect critically upon, and provide constructive practical alternatives to, competitive individualism.

Author: Margaret C. Jones
ISBN-10: 0820417505
ISBN-13: 9780820417509
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1992
Pages: 156
Format: Hardcover
By Margaret C. Jones
By Margaret C. Jones
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The Author: Margaret C. Jones is an assistant professor of English at Central Washington University in the U.S.A. A British citizen, she received her B.A. and M.A. from the University College of North Wales, Bangor, and her Ph.D. from Purdue University. She has published scholarly articles, journalism and short fiction.

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