American Literature and Culture, 1900 - 1960

AvGail McDonald

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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This introduction to American literature and culture from 1900 to 1960 is organized around four major ideas about America: that is it "big", "new", "rich", and "free". Illustrates the artistic and social climate in the USA during this period.Juxtaposes discussion of history, popular culture, literature and other art forms in ways that foster discussion, questioning, and continued study.An appendix lists relevant primary and secondary works, including websites.An ideal supplement to primary texts taught in American literature courses.

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-10-12
Mått:154 x 231 x 14 mm
Vikt:399 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9781405101271

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Gail McDonald is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton. She is the author of Learning to Be Modern: Pound, Eliot, and the American University (1993). She is also a Founder and Past President of the Modernist Studies Association.

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"To call this an 'introduction' or 'guide' to its topic is accurate but modest...McDonald does not attempt to redefine texts so much as portray their coincidental nature...Highly Recommended." Choice

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations viiTimeline viiiAcknowledgments xxiiIntroduction 11 Big 6Expansion and its Discontents 12The City 19Representing Nature 36Apocalypse 43The Sense of Place 482 Rich 60Weber and Veblen: Reasons to Work and Reasons to Spend 66USA 71Work and Identity 79Labor Reform 91Consumption and Identity 993 New 110Beginning Anew: Crevecoeur and Hawthorne 115Young America 119Making It New I: Literary Modernism 128Making It New II: The Other Arts 1494 Free 165The Multiple Meanings of Freedom 170War and the Affirmation of American Values 173Writing War 180Upstream Against the Mainstream 187“An Inescapable Network of Mutuality” 203Notes 211Websites for Further Study of American Literature and Culture 215Bibliography 217Index 231