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Our Topics The Great Depression Realism Escapism Postwar voices The Beat Generation The Great Depression Brief Introduction Causes Process Effects Brief Introduction Time: 1929~1930s or early 1940s Start: the falling in the stock market Stock market crash Hallmark Event(标志性事件): the Black Tuesday Black Tuesday Causes Great Economic Recession (经济大衰退) Breakdown of international trade Debt deflation(债务紧缩) Productivity shock Process The Black Tuesday Mellon pulled the whistle, Hoover rang the bell, Wall Street gave the signal and the country went to hell. “ 梅隆拉响汽笛，胡佛敲起钟。华尔街发出信号，美国往地狱里冲!” The New Deal The New Deal is a series of economic programs 3 Rs: relief, recovery, and reform. Relief for the unemployed and poor; Recovery of the economy to normal levels; Reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression. World War II and Recovery Great Depression ended with the advent of World War II. Americas entry into the war in 1941 finally eliminated the last effects from the Great Depression and brought the unemployment rate down below 10%. Effects Keynesian(凯恩斯主义) Economic nationalism(名族主义) Totalitarianism(极端主义)-Nazi Party Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini(贝尼托·墨索里尼,indirectly lead to the World War II Unemployment increasing Great hardships of the common people Literature Literature Realism Escapism Representative magazines: Reader’s Digest(读者文摘) Esquire (时尚先生） Representative writers: Ernest Hemingway(海明威) Thomas Wolfe(托马斯·沃尔夫) Influenced by the Civil War (1861-1865) Rejection to the romanticism The American spirit Prelude: Abolition novel(废奴小说 Naturalism The Features of Realism: Authenticity in details Typicality in image objectivity in describing ways The Representative Figures: 1、Mark Twain 2 、William Dean Howells 3 、Henry James Mark Twain(1835-1910): The True Father of American Literature. The representative figure of loc