Screen LibraryA history of American literature and culture of the First World War /
In the years of and around the First World War, American poets, fiction writers, and dramatists came to the forefront of the international movement we call Modernism. At the same time a vast amount of non- and anti-Modernist culture was produced, mostly supporting, but also critical of, the US war e...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
In the years of and around the First World War, American poets, fiction writers, and dramatists came to the forefront of the international movement we call Modernism. At the same time a vast amount of non- and anti-Modernist culture was produced, mostly supporting, but also critical of, the US war effort. A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War explores this fraught cultural moment, teasing out the multiple and intricate relationships between an insurgent Modernism, a still-powerful traditional culture, and a variety of cultural and social forces that interacted with and influenced them. Including genre studies, focused analyses of important wartime movements and groups, and broad historical assessments of the significance of the war as prosecuted by the United States on the world stage, this book presents original essays defining the state of scholarship on the American culture of the First World War. |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 449 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-433) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781108475327 1108475329 9781108466714 1108466710 |
| Index Number: | PS223 |
| CLC: | I712.095 |
| Call Number: | I712.095/H673 |
| Contents: |
Introduction. America's Great War at one hundred (and counting) / Genre and Medium. Poetry: hegemonic vistas / Fiction: a war remembered / Film: mostly classical Hollywood cinema goes to war and sometimes brings it home / Drama: from literary fantasy to gritty realism / Popular music: tin pan alley as national barometer / Journalism: adventure and reckoning / Memoirs: negotiating the great war's social memory / Art and illustration: modes of visual persuasion / Settings and Subjects. The peace movement: rapid development, women's leadership, regional diversity / Americans in France: women writers and international responsibility / German Americans: dual loyalties and poetic adaptations of 'The watch on the Rhine' / The English in America: cultural propaganda and its agents / Preparedness: Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard Wood, and Rookie rhymes / Propaganda: martialing media / Conscientious objectors: conscience, courage, and resistance / Volunteers: ambulance and nursing narratives / African Americans: defining freedom, citizenship, and patriotism / In the Midwest: 'Borne back ceaselessly into the past' / In the South: three Mississippi writers and the Great War mobilization / Revolution: winning the world, losing the (middle) way / Monuments and memorials: memory dissipated / Transformations. The nation: forging one, finding many / Free speech: 'clear and prese |