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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: history of American literature 1900-1950
  name:
    name part: MacGowan, Christopher J. (Christopher John)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 482 pages).
  abstract: "For Henry Adams writing in The Education of Henry Adams (1918) his nineteenth century education had left him completely unprepared to understand the new century that he saw around him, and he feared that the impersonal technologies that characterized the new century would provide little inspiration for artists. The change would go on to be even greater than Adams had imagined. This volume of the Blackwell History of American Literature covers the period when the USA became an international power, at first regionally and then following the First Word War on the global stage. American literature explores the impact of this change upon questions of community, identity, and values from both regional and international perspectives. The early years of the 1900s saw the final works of Henry James and Mark Twain, both writers prefiguring in their own ways the challenge to comfortable certainties that would shortly come with modernism. The ways in which writers dramatized such change will be a major theme of the history. Wharton and Dreiser developed the strategies of realism and naturalism inherited from Crane and Norris. With the work of such figures as Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and Faulkner the acceptance of limitation, Anderson's "little things" in his Winesburg, Ohio, found formal parallels in the writers' challenges to the conventions of nineteenth century unities. Responding to the work of Lawrence, Joyce and Woolf among others, and the impact of Freud and new ideas in science, they looked for what still might be certain in a world of increasingly rapid change, and raised questions about what value or use any such limited certainties might have. Modernist experiment is much more muted in the work of Willa Cather, although the themes are similar, and are explored to different degrees by other writers too--the dangers of romanticizing the past, and the challenges of the transition from a pastoral, pioneer culture to an industrial one"--
  table of contents: American literature in 1900 -- The twenties : becoming international -- The thirties : depression and a prelude to war -- War : thus dawn the 1940s... -- Into mid-century : Native American literature 1920-50.
  note: Christopher MacGowan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PS223 .M33 2024
  classification: 810.9/0052
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Wiley-Blackwell histories of American literature
  related item:
    title info:
      title: History of American literature 1900-1950
    name:
      name part: MacGowan, Christopher J.
    origin info:
      publisher: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2024
    identifier: (DLC) 2023053685
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  identifier: 1119100933
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 231216
    record change date: 20260214214948.8
    record identifier: in00004790706
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng