World War One, American Literature, and the Federal State

This book shows an empowered federal state as a significant factor in experimental American culture well before the 1930s.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Credits; Introduction; 1. Freeloading in hobohemia: antimodernism, free verse, and the state in American World War One periodical culture; 2. Letters from a soldier: wartime letters and states of intimacy; 3. The regional novel and the wartime state; 4. USA., World War One, and the petromodern state; 5. Fictions of rehabilititation; Conclusion; Notes.

About the author

Mark Whalan is Robert and Eve Horn Professor of English at the University of Oregon. His previous books include American Culture in the 1910s (2010), The Great War and the Culture of the New Negro (2008), and Race, Manhood and Modernism in America: The Short Story Cycles of Sherwood Anderson and Jean Toomer (2007). He has published in American Literary History, Modernism/Modernity, Modern Fiction Studies, the Journal of American Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, and African American Review, and is co-editor, with Martin Halliwell, of the Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century series.

Summary

Rather than focusing on literary interpretations of trauma or memorialization as the most significant effects of World War One, this book shows an empowered federal state as a significant factor in experimental American culture well before the 1930s. This book is for scholars of American modernism and the literature of World War One.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Whalan, Mark (University of Oregon) Whalan, Whalan Mark
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108473835
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47383-5
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, United States of America, USA, c 1910 to c 1919, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000