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The Novel as Social History: Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre and Class Relations in the New South

The Novel as Social History: Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre and Class Relations... The Novel as Social History: Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre and Class Relations in the New South Bryant Simon Southern Cultures, Volume 2, Number 3/4, 1996, pp. 375-392 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1996.0017 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/424288/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:05 GMT from JHU Libraries Essay The Novel as Social History: Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre and Class Relations in the New South by Bryant Simon Will Thompson is a worker, a white southern mill worker. He is not a tenant farmer turned mill worker; he is a lifelong mill worker. "The sight of the bare land, cultivated and fallow," it was written of him, "with never a factory or a mill to be seen made him a little sick to his stomach." When a lock-out shuts down the South Carolina factory where he worked in the early 1930s, he reluctantly agrees to join his wife, Rosamond, on a trip to see her family in rural east Georgia. The Waldens are farmers, or at least they used to be. Now, Ty Ty and his sons spend their days on a quixotic, comical quest for gold. Deep random http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

The Novel as Social History: Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre and Class Relations in the New South

Simon, Bryant.
Southern Cultures , Volume 2 (3) – Jan 4, 2012
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The Novel as Social History: Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre and Class Relations in the New South Bryant Simon Southern Cultures, Volume 2, Number 3/4, 1996, pp. 375-392 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1996.0017 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/424288/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:05 GMT from JHU Libraries Essay The Novel as Social History: Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre and Class Relations in the New South by Bryant Simon Will Thompson is a worker, a white southern mill worker. He is not a tenant farmer turned mill worker; he is a lifelong mill worker. "The sight of the bare land, cultivated and fallow," it was written of him, "with never a factory or a mill to be seen made him a little sick to his stomach." When a lock-out shuts down the South Carolina factory where he worked in the early 1930s, he reluctantly agrees to join his wife, Rosamond, on a trip to see her family in rural east Georgia. The Waldens are farmers, or at least they used to be. Now, Ty Ty and his sons spend their days on a quixotic, comical quest for gold. Deep random

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