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American literature and culture, 1900-1960 /

McDonald, Gail.

American literature and culture, 1900-1960 / Gail McDonald. - 1 online resource (xxiii, 243 pages) : illustrations. - Blackwell introductions to literature ; 16 . - Blackwell introductions to literature ; 16. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.

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."

9780470690741 0470690747 9780470680476 0470680474 047079397X (E-ISBN) 9780470793978

10.1002/9780470690741 doi

10.1002/9780470690741 Wiley InterScience http://www3.interscience.wiley.com F90C15CE-A376-4BAF-AC3D-DFFC322E9BD2 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com


1900-1999


American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature and society--History--United States--20th century.
Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Américains dans la littérature.
Littérature et société--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siècle.
États-Unis dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
American literature.
Civilization.
Literature.
Literature and society.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Amerikaans.
Bellettrie.
Cultuur.
Maatschappij.
Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Américains dans la littérature.
Littérature et société--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siècle.
États-Unis dans la littérature.
Electronic books.


United States--Civilization--20th century.
United States--In literature.
États-Unis--Civilisation--20e siècle.
United States.
Verenigde Staten.
États-Unis--Civilisation--20e siècle.


Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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