{"product_id":"the-cambridge-history-of-american-literature-volume-6-prose-writing-1910-1950-hardback-9780521497312","title":"The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 6, Prose Writing, 1910–1950 (Hardback) 9780521497312","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 6, Prose Writing, 1910–1950\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplores the emergence and flowering of modernism in the United States.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSacvan Bercovitch (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521497312, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 November 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e640 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 3.5 cm, 1.205 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… vast and eminently readable survey of twentieth century American literature …'. Use of English\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eVolume 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Sacvan Bercovitch and Jonathan Fortescue\u003cbr\u003e I. A cultural history of the modern American novel David Minter: Prologue\u003cbr\u003e Part I. A Dream City, Lyric Years, and a Great War: 1. The novel as ironic reflection\u003cbr\u003e 2. Confidence and uncertainty in The Portrait of a Lady\u003cbr\u003e 3. Lines of expansion\u003cbr\u003e 4. Four contemporaries and closing of the west\u003cbr\u003e 5. Chicago's 'Dream City'\u003cbr\u003e 6. Frederick Jackson Turner in the dream city\u003cbr\u003e 7. Henry Adams's Education and the grammar of progress\u003cbr\u003e 8. Jack London's career and popular discourse\u003cbr\u003e 9. Innocence in the 'Lyric Years': 1900–1916\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Armory Show of 1913 and the decline of innocence\u003cbr\u003e 11. The play of hope and despair\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Fiction in a Time of Plenty: 12. When the war was over: the return of detachment\u003cbr\u003e 13. The 'Jazz Age' and the 'Lost Generation' revisited\u003cbr\u003e 14. The perils of plenty, or how the Twenties acquired a paranoid tilt\u003cbr\u003e 15. Disenchantment, flight, and the rise of professionalism in an age of plenty\u003cbr\u003e 16. Class, power, and violence in a new age\u003cbr\u003e 17. The fear of feminization and the logic of modest ambitions\u003cbr\u003e 18. Marginality and authority\/race, gender and region\u003cbr\u003e 19. War as metaphor: the example of Ernest Hemingway\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Fate of Writing During the Great Depression: 20. The discovery of poverty and the return of commitment\u003cbr\u003e 21. The search for 'culture' as a form of commitment\u003cbr\u003e 22. Three responses: the examples of Henry Miller, Djuna Barnes, and John Dos Passos\u003cbr\u003e 23. Cowboys, detectives and other tough-guy antinomians: residual individualism and hedged commitments\u003cbr\u003e 24. The search for shared purpose: struggles on the left\u003cbr\u003e 25. Documentary literature and the disarming of dissent\u003cbr\u003e 26. The southern renaissance: forms of reaction and innovation\u003cbr\u003e 27. History and novels\/novels and history: the example of William Faulkner\u003cbr\u003e II. Fictions of the Harlem Renaissance Rafia Zafar: 1. A new Negro?\u003cbr\u003e 2. Black Manhattan\u003cbr\u003e 3. Avatars and Manifestos\u003cbr\u003e 4. At home and homeless in Harlem\u003cbr\u003e 5. New Negro, New Woman\u003cbr\u003e 6. Thurman and Nugent\u003cbr\u003e 7. Minor writers\u003cbr\u003e 8. Hurston and Wright\u003cbr\u003e 9. Black Modernism\u003cbr\u003e III. Ethnic Modernism Werner Sollors: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Gertrude Stein and 'Negro Sunshine'\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ethnic lives and 'lifelets'\u003cbr\u003e 3. Ethnic themes, modern themes\u003cbr\u003e 4. Mary Antin: progressive optimism against odds\u003cbr\u003e 5. Who is 'American'?\u003cbr\u003e 6. American languages\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'All the past we leave behind'? Ole E. Rølvaag and the immigrant trilogy\u003cbr\u003e 8. Modernism, ethnic labeling\u003cbr\u003e and the quest for wholeness: Jean Toomer's new American race\u003cbr\u003e 9. Freud, Marx, hard-boiled\u003cbr\u003e 10. Hemingway spoken here\u003cbr\u003e 11. Henry Roth: ethnicity, modernity, and modernism\u003cbr\u003e 12. The clock, the salesman and the beast\u003cbr\u003e 13. Was modernism anti-totalitarian\u003cbr\u003e 14. Facing the extreme\u003cbr\u003e 15. 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