This account of America reconstructs literary history as a cultural drama out of which novels and the events emerge as kindred forms of cultural expression.
This account of America reconstructs literary history as a cultural drama out of which novels and the events emerge as kindred forms of cultural expression.
A preface in two parts Acknowledgements A note on sources, citations and bibliography Part I. A Dream City, Lyric Years and a Great War: 1. The novel as ironic reflection 2. Confidence and uncertainty in The Portrait of a Lady 3. Lines of expansion 4. Four contemporaries and the closing of the West 5. Chicago's 'dream city' 6. Frederick Jackson Turner in the dream city 7. Henry Adam's Education and the grammar of progress 8. Jack London's career and popular discourse 9. Innocence and revolt in the 'lyric years': 1900-1916 10. The Armory show of 1913 and the decline of innocence 11. The play of hope and despair 12. The Great War and the fate of writing Part II. Fiction in a Time of Plenty: 13. When the war was over: the return of detachment 14. The 'jazz age' and the 'lost generation' revisited 15. The perils of plenty, or how the twenties acquired a paranoid tilt 16. Disenchantment, flight and the rise of professionalism in an age of plenty 17. Class, power and violence in a new age 18. The fear of feminisation and the logic of modest ambition 19. Marginality and authority/race, gender and region 20. War as metaphor: the example of Ernest Hemingway Part III. The Fate of Writing during the Great Depression: 21. The discovery of poverty and the return of commitment 22. The search for 'culture' as a form of commitment 23. Three responses: the examples of Henry Miller, Djuna Barnes and John Dos Passos 24. Cowboys, detectives and other tough-guy antinomians: residual individualism and hedged commitments 25. The search for shared purpose: struggles on the Left 26. Documentary literature and the disarming of dissent 27. The Southern Renaissance: forms of reaction and innovation 28. History and novels/novels and history: the example of William Faulkner Notes Bibliographical notes Bibliography Index.
A preface in two parts Acknowledgements A note on sources, citations and bibliography Part I. A Dream City, Lyric Years and a Great War: 1. The novel as ironic reflection 2. Confidence and uncertainty in The Portrait of a Lady 3. Lines of expansion 4. Four contemporaries and the closing of the West 5. Chicago's 'dream city' 6. Frederick Jackson Turner in the dream city 7. Henry Adam's Education and the grammar of progress 8. Jack London's career and popular discourse 9. Innocence and revolt in the 'lyric years': 1900-1916 10. The Armory show of 1913 and the decline of innocence 11. The play of hope and despair 12. The Great War and the fate of writing Part II. Fiction in a Time of Plenty: 13. When the war was over: the return of detachment 14. The 'jazz age' and the 'lost generation' revisited 15. The perils of plenty, or how the twenties acquired a paranoid tilt 16. Disenchantment, flight and the rise of professionalism in an age of plenty 17. Class, power and violence in a new age 18. The fear of feminisation and the logic of modest ambition 19. Marginality and authority/race, gender and region 20. War as metaphor: the example of Ernest Hemingway Part III. The Fate of Writing during the Great Depression: 21. The discovery of poverty and the return of commitment 22. The search for 'culture' as a form of commitment 23. Three responses: the examples of Henry Miller, Djuna Barnes and John Dos Passos 24. Cowboys, detectives and other tough-guy antinomians: residual individualism and hedged commitments 25. The search for shared purpose: struggles on the Left 26. Documentary literature and the disarming of dissent 27. The Southern Renaissance: forms of reaction and innovation 28. History and novels/novels and history: the example of William Faulkner Notes Bibliographical notes Bibliography Index.
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