American Literature in Transition, 19301940

This book is the most comprehensive critical treatment of American letters in the 1930s. Twenty-four leading scholars analyze key aspects of this era.

List of contents

Introduction Ichiro Takayoshi; Part I. Themes: 1. The middle class Amy L. Blair; 2. Romance, marriage, and family Jennifer Haytock; 3. The working class Joseph B. Entin; 4. Sympathy and poverty John Marsh; 5. Black culture at home and abroad Etsuko Taketani; 6. The Southern heritage Michael Kreyling; 7. The literature of social protest in California David Wrobel; 8. Reckoning with Christianity Jason Stevens; 9. Diversity and American letters Yael Schacher; 10. This land is your land Robert B. Westbrook; 11. Look at the world! David Ekbladh and Ichiro Takayoshi; Part II. Formats: 12. Bestsellers David Welky; 13. Radio drama Neil Verma; 14. Crime fiction Charles J. Rzepka; 15. Documentary work Jeff Allred; 16. Modernism Milton A. Cohen; 17. The American stage Mark Fearnow; Part III. Institutions: 18. Federal Writers' Project Jerrold Hirsch; 19. Hollywood William Solomon; 20. Time Inc. Donal Harris; 21. The Communist Party Christopher Phelps; Echoes of the 1930s Morris Dickstein.

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, 1935–1941: A Literary History (Cambridge, 2015) and editor of American Literature in Transition: 1920–1930 (Cambridge, 2018). He is currently at work on a literary and intellectual history of the interwar decades.

Product details

• Authors: 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: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781108429382
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42938-2
• No. of pages: 408
• 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; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000