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Title:

American literature in transition, 1920-1930 / edited by Ichiro Takayoshi.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xxi, 489 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
Literature and history--United States--History--20th century.
American literature.
Literature and history.
Literature and society.
United States.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Other Authors:

Takayoshi, Ichiro, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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

Summary:

"American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 examines the dynamic interactions between social and literary fields during the so-called Jazz Age. It situates the era's place in the incremental evolution of American literature throughout the 20th century. Essays from preeminent critics and historians analyze many overlapping aspects of American letters in the 1920s and re-evaluates an astonishingly diverse group of authors. Expansive in scope and daring in its mixture of eclectic methods, this book extends the most exciting advances made in the last several decades in the fields of modernist studies, ethnic literatures, African-American literature, gender studies, transnational studies, and the history of the book. It examines how the world of literature intersected with other arts, such as cinema, jazz, and theater, and explores the print culture in transition, with focus on new publishing houses, trends in advertising, readership, and obscenity laws"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

American literature in transition

ISBN:

110841821X
9781108418218

OCLC:

(OCoLC)991642143

LCCN:

2017026526

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)