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American literature and culture, 1900-1960 / Gail McDonald.

By: McDonald, GailContributor(s): Wiley InterScience (Online service)Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell introductions to literature ; 16.Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 243 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780470690741; 0470690747; 9780470680476; 0470680474; 047079397X (E-ISBN); 9780470793978Subject(s): American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | National characteristics, American, in literature | United States -- Civilization -- 20th century | United States -- In literature | Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique | Américains dans la littérature | Littérature et société -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle | États-Unis dans la littérature | États-Unis -- Civilisation -- 20e siècle | LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General | American literature | Civilization | Literature | Literature and society | National characteristics, American, in literature | United States | Amerikaans | Bellettrie | Cultuur | Maatschappij | Verenigde Staten | Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique | Américains dans la littérature | Littérature et société -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle | États-Unis dans la littérature | États-Unis -- Civilisation -- 20e siècle | Electronic books | 1900-1999Genre/Form: Electronic books. | Criticism, interpretation, etc. | History.Additional physical formats: Print version:: American literature and culture, 1900-1960.DDC classification: 810.9/358 LOC classification: PS221 | .M394 2007ebOther classification: 18.06 Online resources: Wiley Online Library
Contents:
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."
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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."

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