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Title The Cambridge history of American literature. Vol. 6, Prose writing, 1910-1950 / general editor, Sacvan Bercovitch
Published Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 620 pages)
Contents A Cultural History of the Modern American Novel: Introduction / David Minter -- A Dream City, Lyric Years, and a Great War -- The Novel as Ironic Reflection -- Confidence and Uncertainty in The Portrait of A Lady -- Lines of Expansion -- Four Contemporaries and the Closing of the West -- Chicago's "Dream City" -- Frederick Jackson Turner in The Dream City -- Henry Adams's Education and The Grammar of Progress -- Jack London's Career and Popular Discourse -- Innocence and Revolt in the "Lyric Years": 1900-1916 -- The Armory show of 1913 and the Decline of Innocence -- The Play of Hope and Despair -- The Great War and The Fate of Writing -- Fiction in a Tme of Plenty -- When the War Was Over: the Return of Detachment -- The "Jazz Age" and the "Lost Generation" Revisited -- The Perils of Plenty, or How The Twenties Acquired a Paranoid Tilt -- Disenchantment, Flight, and The Rise of Professionalism in an Age of Plenty -- Class, Power, and Violence in a New Age -- The Fear of Feminization and The Logic of Modest Ambition -- Marginality and Authority / Race, Gender, and Region -- War as Metaphor: The Example of Ernest Hemingway -- The Fate of Writing During the Great Depression -- The Discovery of Poverty and the Return of Commitment -- The Search for "Culture" as a Form of Commitment -- Three Responses: The Examples of Henry Miller, Djuna Barnes, and John Dos Passos -- Residual Individualism and Hedged Commitments -- The Search for Shared Purpose: Struggles on the Left -- Documentary Literature and The Disarming of Dissent -- The Southern Renaissance: Forms of Reaction and Innovation -- History and Novels / Novels and History: The Example of William Faulkner -- Fictions of the Harlem Renaissance -- A New Negro? / Rafia Zafar -- Black Manhattan -- Avatars and Manifestos -- Harlem as A State of Mind: Hughes, McKay, Toomer -- A New Negro, A New Woman: Larsen, Fauset, Bonner -- "Dark -- Skinned Selves Without Fear or Shame: Thurman and Nugent" -- Genre in The Renaissance: Fisher, Schuyler, Cullen, White, Bontemps -- Southern Daughter, Native Son: Hurston and Wright -- Black Modernism -- Ethnic Modernism -- Introduction / Werner Sollors -- Gertrude Stein and "Negro Sunshine" -- Ethnic Lives and "Lifelets" -- Ethnic Themes, Modern Themes -- Mary Antin: Progressive Optimism against The Odds -- Who is "American"? -- American Languages -- All the Past We Leave Behind? Ole E. Rölvaag and the Immigrant Trilogy -- Modernism, Ethnic Labeling, and The Quest for Wholeness: Jean Toomer's New American Race -- Freud, Marx, Hard-Boiled -- Hemingway Spoken Here -- Henry Roth: Ethnicity, Modernity, and Modernism -- The Clock, The Salesman, and the Breast -- Was Modernism Antitotalitarian? -- Facing the Extreme -- Grand Central Terminal
Summary Volume 6 of The Cambridge History of American Literature explores the emergence and flowering of modernism in the United States. David Minter provides a cultural history of the American novel from the 'lyric years' to World War I, through post-World War I disillusionment, to the consolidation of the Left in response to the mire of the Great Depression. Rafia Zafar tells the story of the Harlem Renaissance, detailing the artistic accomplishments of such diverse figures as Zora Neal Hurston, W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Richard Wright. Werner Sollors examines canonical texts as well as popular magazines and hitherto unknown immigrant writing from the period. Taken together these narratives cover the entire range of literary prose written in the first half of the twentieth century, offering a model of literary history for our times, focusing as they do on the intricate interplay between text and context
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
American literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Bercovitch, Sacvan
ISBN 9781139053594
1139053590
9781139053594
Other Titles Prose writing, 1910-1950