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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Christopher MacGowan (College of William and Mary, VA)Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell Dimensions: Width: 19.30cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.851kg ISBN: 9781405170468ISBN 10: 1405170468 Pages: 496 Publication Date: 13 June 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPreface vii 1 American Literature in 1900 1 Prose and Fiction: Taking on the New Century 3 Regional Fictions: Austin, Glasgow, Cather, and Roberts 23 Black Writing: The Washington and Du Bois Debate 33 American Theater in the First Decades 39 Native American Literature in the Early 1900s 43 Poetry Before the Modernists 47 The Chicago Renaissance: Masters, Lindsay, and Sandburg 49 The Poetry of Feeling: Teasdale, Millay, Wiley, and Bogan 57 The Poetry of Place: Jeffers, Robinson, and Frost 64 2 The Twenties: Becoming International 72 Innovation and American Theater in the 1920s 73 Prose in the American Grain: Lewis, Anderson, Faulkner 82 The Expatriates: “Being Geniuses Together” 96 “Making It New” Modernist Poetry and the 1920s 115 The South: Fugitives and Agrarians 139 The Harlem Renaissance 142 3 The Thirties: Depression and a Prelude to War 163 Poetry: Some Legacies of Modernism 168 Drama in the 1930s: After O’Neill 178 Fiction in the 1930s: A National and International Canvas 197 Black Writing in the 1930s 226 Immigrant Writing in the First Decades 234 Proletarian Literature 246 American Writers and the Spanish Civil War 263 4 WAR: “Thus dawn the 1940s…” 270 The Media: Books, Hollywood, and Television 270 Literature and the War: Fiction and Nonfiction 276 Literature and the War: Poetry 290 Literature and the War: Theater 302 5 Into Mid-Century 304 Native American Literature 1920–1950 304 Postwar Theater: The Early Careers of Inge, Williams, and Miller 317 Poetry into Mid-Century: Evaluating the Modernist Legacy 333 Black Writing into Mid-Century 356 Fiction in the 1940s 377 J. D. Salinger and Vladimir Nabokov 377 Southern Writing 382 Jewish American Fiction 394 Urban Fiction: Tales of Three Cities 402 Los Angeles 402 New York 408 Chicago 412 And Other Places: Past, Present, and Future 415 Past 415 Present 417 Future 424 References 434 Index 463ReviewsAuthor InformationCHRISTOPHER MACGOWAN teaches modernist poetry and American literature at the College of William and Mary, where he is a William R. Kenan Jr. Professor. He is a specialist in the poetry of William Carlos Williams and has published on Sherwood Anderson, Denise Levertov, Ford Madox Ford, and Vladimir Nabokov. He is the author of Twentieth-Century American Poetry and The Twentieth Century American Fiction Handbook. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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