{"product_id":"prophets-in-babylon-margaret-c-jones-9780820417509","title":"Prophets in Babylon: Five California Novelists in the 1930s","description":"\u003ci\u003eProphets in Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret C. Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820417505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820417509\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Margaret C. Jones","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49082575192319,"sku":"9780820417509","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/prophets-in-babylon-margaret-c-jones-9780820417509","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}