LEADER 03924nam 22005653 450 001 9911019278003321 005 20250331092910.0 010 $a9781119072775 010 $a1119072778 010 $a9781119072782 010 $a1119072786 035 $a(CKB)4330000000008331 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31342566 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31342566 035 $a(Perlego)4418239 035 $a(OCoLC)1434170711 035 $a(EXLCZ)994330000000008331 100 $a20240518d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA History of American Literature 1900 - 1950 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNewark :$cJohn Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,$d2024. 210 4$d©2024. 215 $a1 online resource (499 pages) 225 1 $aWiley-Blackwell Histories of American Literature Series 311 08$a9781405170468 311 08$a1405170468 327 $aAmerican literature in 1900 -- The twenties : becoming international -- The thirties : depression and a prelude to war -- War : "thus dawn the 1940s..." -- Into mid-century : Native American literature 1920-50. 330 $a"For Henry Adams writing in The Education of Henry Adams (1918) his nineteenth century education had left him completely unprepared to understand the new century that he saw around him, and he feared that the impersonal technologies that characterized the new century would provide little inspiration for artists. The change would go on to be even greater than Adams had imagined. This volume of the Blackwell History of American Literature covers the period when the USA became an international power, at first regionally and then following the First Word War on the global stage. American literature explores the impact of this change upon questions of community, identity, and values from both regional and international perspectives. The early years of the 1900s saw the final works of Henry James and Mark Twain, both writers prefiguring in their own ways the challenge to comfortable certainties that would shortly come with modernism. The ways in which writers dramatized such change will be a major theme of the history. Wharton and Dreiser developed the strategies of realism and naturalism inherited from Crane and Norris. With the work of such figures as Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and Faulkner the acceptance of limitation, Anderson's "little things" in his Winesburg, Ohio, found formal parallels in the writers' challenges to the conventions of nineteenth century unities. Responding to the work of Lawrence, Joyce and Woolf among others, and the impact of Freud and new ideas in science, they looked for what still might be certain in a world of increasingly rapid change, and raised questions about what value or use any such limited certainties might have. Modernist experiment is much more muted in the work of Willa Cather, although the themes are similar, and are explored to different degrees by other writers too--the dangers of romanticizing the past, and the challenges of the transition from a pastoral, pioneer culture to an industrial one"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aWiley-Blackwell Histories of American Literature Series 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiteratura nord-americana$2thub 606 $aHistòria de la literatura$2thub 608 $aLlibres electrònics$2thub 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 7$aLiteratura nord-americana 615 7$aHistòria de la literatura 676 $a810.9/0052 700 $aMacGowan$b Christopher$0689726 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911019278003321 996 $aA History of American Literature 1900 - 1950$94418578 997 $aUNINA