TY - BOOK AU - Casey, Janet Galligani. TI - Reviving the thirties: the case for teaching proletarian fiction in the undergraduate American literature classroom PY - 2008/// KW - Literature -- Study and teaching (Undergraduate) KW - Literature, American KW - Politics and literature -- United States -- History KW - Proletariat in literature N1 - General Education N2 - The paper discusses the lack of attention given to proletarian fiction from the 1930s in American literature syllabi, despite its potential value for teaching literary studies to undergraduates. The author aims to disrupt this exclusion and revive proletarian fiction as a site of aesthetic debate, emphasizing its historical and pedagogical significance ER -