American literature and culture, 1900-1960 / / Gail McDonald
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| Autore: |
McDonald Gail
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| Titolo: |
American literature and culture, 1900-1960 / / Gail McDonald
|
| Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/358 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century | |
| National characteristics, American, in literature | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Civilization 20th century |
| United States In literature | |
| Classificazione: | 930.29 |
| 810.9/358 | |
| Note generali: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-230) and index |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-230) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Timeline -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Big -- Expansion and its Discontents -- The City -- Representing Nature -- Apocalypse -- The Sense of Place -- 2 Rich -- Weber and Veblen:Reasons to Work and Reasons to Spend -- USA -- Work and Identity -- Labor Reform -- Consumption and Identity -- 3 New -- Beginning Anew:Crevecoeur and Hawthorne -- Young America -- Making It New I: Literary Modernism -- Making It New II: The Other Arts -- 4 Free -- The Multiple Meanings of Freedom -- War and the Affirmation of American Values -- Writing War -- Upstream Against the Mainstream -- "An Inescapable Network of Mutuality" -- Notes -- Websites for Further Study of American Literature and Culture -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "To call this an 'introduction' or 'guide' to its topic is accurate but modest...McDonald does not attempt to redefine texts so much as portray their coincidental nature...Highly Recommended." Choice. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | American literature and culture 1900-1960 |
| ISBN: | 9780470690741 |
| 0470680474 | |
| 9780470680476 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822763003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Blackwell introductions to literature ; ; 16.