American Literature in Transition, 19201930

The most comprehensive critical treatment of American letters in the 1920s. Over twenty distinct aspects of the topic explored in depth.

List of contents

Introduction Ichiro Takayoshi; Part I. Players: 1. The late Victorians Clare Eby; 2. Middlebrows Joan Shelley Rubin; 3. Innovators 1: poetry Charles Altieri; 4. Innovators 2: Prose Philip Weinstein; 5. The new woman Catherine Keyser; 6. New immigrants Aviva F. Taubenfeld; 7. Radicals Alan Wald; 8. The new negro Ichiro Takayoshi; 9. Americans abroad Craig Monk; 10. Columnists, pundits, humorists Christopher B. Daly; Part II. Influences: 11. The Great War Keith Gandal; 12. Urbanization Sunny Stalter-Pace; 13. Freudianism Eli Zaretsky; 14. Secularization Jason Stevens; 15. Prohibition Kathleen Drowne; 16. European imports Richard Pells; Part III. Intersections: 17. Cinema David Seed; 18. Jazz T. Austin Graham; 19. Stage Cheryl Black; Part IV. Publishing: 20. New publishers Lise Jaillant; 21. Small magazines Greg Barnhisel; 22. Pulp magazines Brooks E. Hefner; 23. Obscenity trials Loren Glass; Echoes of the twenties Sarah Churchwell; Index.

About the author

Ichiro Takayoshi teaches modern American literature and social thought at Tufts University, Massachusetts. He is the author of American Writers and the Approach of World War II: A Literary History (Cambridge, 2015) and editor of American Literature in Transition: The 1930s (Cambridge, 2017). He is currently at work on a literary and intellectual history of the interwar decades.

Summary

This is an excellent resource for undergraduate and graduate students interested in American literary culture of the 1920s. Preeminent scholars of the field analyze over twenty aspects of the era's key literary activities. The book's unusually capacious framework encompasses not only canonical authors but also a great number of neglected writers.

Product details

• Authors: EDITED BY ICHIRO TAK, Ichiro (Tufts University Takayoshi
• Assisted by: Ichiro Takayoshi (Editor), Ichiro (Tufts University Takayoshi (Editor), Takayoshi Ichiro (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781108418218
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41821-8
• No. of pages: 510
• Series: American Literature in Transit; American Literature in Transition; American Literature in Transition
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, United States of America, USA, c 1920 to c 1929, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000