New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. “This study probes the relationship between two contradictory, or apparently contradictory, pairs of terms: ‘Depression’ and ‘abundance,’ and ‘literature’ and ‘mass culture.’ It suggests, first, that one can detect in the culture of the American thirties—despite the painful national experience of scarcity and poverty—the now-familiar outline of an image-mediated, consumer society. It argues, second, that the hierarchical opposition between..... More