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The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume 6: Prose Writing, 1910-1950

Sacvan Bercovitch

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Volume 6 of The Cambridge History of American Literature explores the emergence and flowering of modernism in the United States. David Minter provides a cultural history of the American novel from the ‘lyric years’ to World War I, through post-World War I disillusionment, to the consolidation of the Left in response to the mire of the Great Depression. Rafia Zafar tells the story of the Harlem Renaissance, detailing the artistic accomplishments of such diverse figures as Zora Neal Hurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Richard Wright. Werner Sollors examines canonical texts as well as popular magazines and hitherto unknown immigrant writing from the period. Taken together these narratives cover the entire range of literary prose written in the first half of the twentieth century, offering a model of literary history for our times, focusing as they do on the intricate interplay between text and context.

• The fullest account of Modernist American writing available • Written by recognised specialists of Modernist American literature • Examines canonical as well as non-canonical writing

Language: English

Pages: 640

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: January 27, 2003

ISBN: 0521497310

ISBN 13: 9780521497312

The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume 6: Prose Writing, 1910-1950

Sacvan Bercovitch

0/5 ( ratings)

Volume 6 of The Cambridge History of American Literature explores the emergence and flowering of modernism in the United States. David Minter provides a cultural history of the American novel from the ‘lyric years’ to World War I, through post-World War I disillusionment, to the consolidation of the Left in response to the mire of the Great Depression. Rafia Zafar tells the story of the Harlem Renaissance, detailing the artistic accomplishments of such diverse figures as Zora Neal Hurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Richard Wright. Werner Sollors examines canonical texts as well as popular magazines and hitherto unknown immigrant writing from the period. Taken together these narratives cover the entire range of literary prose written in the first half of the twentieth century, offering a model of literary history for our times, focusing as they do on the intricate interplay between text and context.

• The fullest account of Modernist American writing available • Written by recognised specialists of Modernist American literature • Examines canonical as well as non-canonical writing

Language: English

Pages: 640

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: January 27, 2003

ISBN: 0521497310

ISBN 13: 9780521497312

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