Stephen Fender has taught at Edinburgh, London and Sussex, as well as in America. His books include Plotting the Golden West: (Cambridge, 1982), and Sea Changes: British Emigration and American Literature (Cambridge, 1992.) He is now Honorary Professor of English at University College London, UK.

• Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Pessimistic Progressives I: Climate: The myth of the Dust Bowl 1: Nature and Apocalypse: Okies and the New Deal in California 2: A Tale of Two Camps 3: Matter Out of Place 4: Who Stole the Folk’s Music? II: Geography: Social Stasis in the Southern Life Histories 5: The WPA and the Southern Country Poor: Life Histories or Case Studies? 6: The Southern Life Histories: The Class Factor III: . Madonnas and Christ Figures 7: The Dust Bowl on Film 8: Nature and Naturalism in Steinbeck’s Labor Fiction Conclusion: Erosion and Retrieval: Poor White Identity and the Limits of Literature

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Stephen Fender has taught at Edinburgh, London and Sussex, as well as in America. His books include Plotting the Golden West: (Cambridge, 1982), and Sea Changes: British Emigration and American Literature (Cambridge, 1992.) He is now Honorary Professor of English at University College London, UK.

• Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Pessimistic Progressives I: Climate: The myth of the Dust Bowl 1: Nature and Apocalypse: Okies and the New Deal in California 2: A Tale of Two Camps 3: Matter Out of Place 4: Who Stole the Folk’s Music? II: Geography: Social Stasis in the Southern Life Histories 5: The WPA and the Southern Country Poor: Life Histories or Case Studies? 6: The Southern Life Histories: The Class Factor III: . Madonnas and Christ Figures 7: The Dust Bowl on Film 8: Nature and Naturalism in Steinbeck’s Labor Fiction Conclusion: Erosion and Retrieval: Poor White Identity and the Limits of Literature

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Stephen Fender has taught at Edinburgh, London and Sussex, as well as in America. His books include Plotting the Golden West: (Cambridge, 1982), and Sea Changes: British Emigration and American Literature (Cambridge, 1992.) He is now Honorary Professor of English at University College London, UK.

• Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Pessimistic Progressives I: Climate: The myth of the Dust Bowl 1: Nature and Apocalypse: Okies and the New Deal in California 2: A Tale of Two Camps 3: Matter Out of Place 4: Who Stole the Folk’s Music? II: Geography: Social Stasis in the Southern Life Histories 5: The WPA and the Southern Country Poor: Life Histories or Case Studies? 6: The Southern Life Histories: The Class Factor III: . Madonnas and Christ Figures 7: The Dust Bowl on Film 8: Nature and Naturalism in Steinbeck’s Labor Fiction Conclusion: Erosion and Retrieval: Poor White Identity and the Limits of Literature

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