Screen LibraryAmerican literature and culture, 1900-1960
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell introductions to literature ;
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470690741 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 243 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780470690741 0470690747 9780470680476 0470680474 |
| Index Number: | PS221 |
| CLC: | I712.065 |
| Contents: | 1. Big : Expansion and its discontents -- The city -- Representing nature -- Apocalypse -- The sense of place -- 2. Rich : Weber and Veblen: Reasons to work and reasons to spend -- USA -- Work and identity -- Labor reform -- Consumption and identity -- 3. New : Beginning anew: Crevecoeur and Hawthorne -- Young America -- Making it new I: literary modernism -- Making it new II: the other arts -- 4. Free : The multiple meanings of freedom -- War and the affirmation of American values -- Writing war -- Upstream against the mainstream -- "An inescapable network of mutuality." |