TY - BOOK AU - McDonald,Gail ED - Wiley InterScience (Online service) TI - American literature and culture, 1900-1960 T2 - Blackwell introductions to literature SN - 9780470690741 AV - PS221 .M394 2007eb U1 - 810.9/358 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Malden, MA PB - Blackwell Pub. KW - American literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - National characteristics, American, in literature KW - Literature and society KW - United States KW - History KW - Littérature américaine KW - 20e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Américains dans la littérature KW - Littérature et société KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire KW - États-Unis dans la littérature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - American KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Civilization KW - Literature KW - Amerikaans KW - gtt KW - Bellettrie KW - Cultuur KW - Maatschappij KW - rvm KW - Electronic books KW - In literature KW - Civilisation KW - Verenigde Staten KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - 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." UR - https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470690741 ER -