Sacvan Bercovitch (ed.)

The Cambridge History of American Literature

Herausgeber: Bercovitch, Sacvan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 642
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1204g
• ISBN-13: 9780521497312
• ISBN-10: 0521497310
• Artikelnr.: 11787390

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments; Introduction Sacvan Bercovitch and Jonathan Fortescue; I. A cultural history of the modern American novel David Minter: Prologue; 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 closing of the west; 5. Chicago's 'Dream City'; 6. Frederick Jackson Turner in the dream city; 7. Henry Adams's Education and the grammar of progress; 8. Jack London's career and popular discourse; 9. Innocence in the 'Lyric Years': 1900-1916; 10. The Armory Show of 1913 and the decline of innocence; 11. The play of hope and despair; Part II. Fiction in a Time of Plenty: 12. When the war was over: the return of detachment; 13. The 'Jazz Age' and the 'Lost Generation' revisited; 14. The perils of plenty, or how the Twenties acquired a paranoid tilt; 15. Disenchantment, flight, and the rise of professionalism in an age of plenty; 16. Class, power,

Rezensionen

'... this is, without doubt and without any serious rival, the scholarly history for our generation.' Journal of American Studies