Robert Mcparland

Beyond Gatsby

How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates how the explosion of distinctly American fiction in the 1920s-including work by authors such as Hemingway, Cather, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Faulker, and others-contributed to shaping the national imagination.

Produktdetails

• Contemporary American Literature
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780810895003
• ISBN-10: 0810895005
• Artikelnr.: 49448982

Autorenporträt

By Robert McParland

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: The Twenties Chapter One Beyond the Wasteland: T.S. Eliot
the Lost Generation
and the Postwar World Chapter Two Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald: Friendship and Rivalry Chapter Three William Faulkner: A Southern Voice in the Age of Modernism Chapter Four Modernism and Popular Culture in the Age of Ezra Pound and James Joyce Chapter Five Midwest Vision and Values: Sherwood Anderson
Sinclair Lewis
Willa Cather Chapter Six Sounds of the City: Theodore Dreiser
John Dos Passos
Anzia Yezierska
Langston Hughes Chapter Seven History and Mythmakers: Edith Wharton
Stephen Vincent Benet
William Carlos Williams
John Steinbeck Notes Bibliography Index About the Author