How did literature change during the Great Depression?

An engaging and informative article about the evolution of literature during the Great Depression was actually published by Bloomberg a few years ago. read more

The changes that came in literature in the 1930s are a product of the events of the 1910s and 1920s just as much as the 1930s and the Great Depression itself. In fact, most of the relevant literature with themes that would play heavily on the Great Depression would come at the tail end of the era or as a retrospective after World War II. read more

The Great Depression was one of the most desperate periods in U.S. history, and one of the most important in American literature. When the stock market crashed in October 1929 and the hectic prosperity of the 1920s gave way to mass unemployment, the crisis energized American writers. read more

Rather, his is an extremely wide-ranging account of the Depression Decade, supplementing the usual reports on economics and politics with the stuff of everyday life—education, literature, the arts, religion, urban development, reform movements, fashions, entertainment, and fads. read more

These events before the Great Depression are as important to understanding how literature changed during the Great Depression as understanding the effects of the Depression itself. Literature, like most things in the universe, is subject to microevolution. It changes and adapts slowly. read more

One international response to the Great Depression was the rise of fascism in Germany under Hitler, Italy under Mussolini, and Spain under Franco. U.S. International Relations in a Depression Era During the 1930s, FDR pursued a primarily isolationist course, concentrating on domestic programs. read more