Fox, Nicholas Hengen,

Reading as collective action : texts as tactics / Nicholas Hengen Fox. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Prologue: blueprints -- Dissent after September 11: how poetry reclaims human rights -- The grapes of wrath and the Great Recession: literature gets people what they need -- Taking with strangers about working class literature: against service learning -- Reconnecting the political: tactics, literary studies, and publicly engaged scholarship -- Epilogue: building a better world.



9781609385262


American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Literature and society--United States.
Books and reading--United States.


Electronic Books.

Z1003 / .R433 2017