God's Little Acre (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Erskine Caldwell
- First Published: 1933
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Naturalistic literature
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, South or Southerners, Religion, 1920’s, 1930’s, Greed, Strikes or lockouts, Gold mines or mining, Mills or millwork, Cotton
- Locales: South (U.S.), Georgia, South Carolina
God's Little Acre, published on the heels of Tobacco Road, appeared in 1933 to favorable reviews and a highly publicized fracas with the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice that focused enormous public attention on the new novel. Here Caldwell brought in more concentrated form many of the ideas that had interested him in the earlier book. Again he sought to explain that “feeling,” trust in oneself and in God—a state very similar to Ralph Waldo Emerson's self-reliance—is the natural goal of humankind.
In God's Little Acre, as in Tobacco...
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