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The Cambridge History of American Literature Vol. 6: Prose Writing 1910–1950

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Prose Writing 1910–1950

Series The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume 6

Author Sacvan Bercovitch

Publication Date 2002

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521497312

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521497312

Overview

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.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction

A Cultural History of the Modern American Novel: Introduction

A Cultural History of the Modern American Novel: 1 A Dream City, Lyric Years, and a Great War

A Cultural History of the Modern American Novel: 2 Fiction in a Tme of Plenty

A Cultural History of the Modern American Novel: 3 The Fate of Writing During the Great Depression

Fictions of the Harlem Renaissance

Ethnic Modernism

Chronology

Bibliography

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