McDonald American Literature and Culture 1900-1960

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-68047-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature

This introduction to American literature and culture from 1900 to1960 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 duringthis period.
* * Juxtaposes discussion of history, popular culture, literatureand 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 Americanliterature courses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McDonald, Gail

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii
Timeline viii
Acknowledgments xxii
Introduction 1
1 Big 6
Expansion and its Discontents 12
The City 19
Representing Nature 36
Apocalypse 43
The Sense of Place 48
2 Rich 60
Weber and Veblen: Reasons to Work and Reasons to Spend 66
USA 71
Work and Identity 79
Labor Reform 91
Consumption and Identity 99
3 New 110
Beginning Anew: Crevecoeur and Hawthorne 115
Young America 119
Making It New I: Literary Modernism 128
Making It New II: The Other Arts 149
4 Free 165
The Multiple Meanings of Freedom 170
War and the Affirmation of American Values 173
Writing War 180
Upstream Against the Mainstream 187
"An Inescapable Network of Mutuality" 203
Notes 211
Websites for Further Study of American Literature and Culture 215
Bibliography 217
Index 231

Über Autor(innen)

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.