A cultural history of the American novel : Henry James to William Faulkner /
Minter, David L.
A cultural history of the American novel : Henry James to William Faulkner / David Minter. - Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994. - xxiii, 266 p. ; 24 cm.
"New edition"--P. xii. "First published 1994"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-252) and index.
A dream city, lyric years, and a great war: Novel as ironic reflection ; Confidence and uncertainty in The portrait of a lady ; Lines of expansion ; Four contemporaries and the closing of the West ; Chicago's "dream city" ; Frederick Jackson Turner in the dream city ; Henry Adams's Education and the grammar of progress ; Jack London's career and popular discourse ; Innocence and revolt in the "lyric years": 1900-1916 ; Armory show of 1913 and the decline of innocence ; Play of hope and despair ; The great war and the fate of writing -- Fiction in a time of plenty: When the war was over : the return of detachment ; The "jazz age" and the "lost generation" revisited ; Perils of plenty, or how the twenties acquired a paranoid tilt ; Disenchantment, flight, and the rise of professionalism in an age of plenty ; Class, power, and violence in a new age ; Fear of feminization and the logic of modest ambition ; Marginality and authority, race, gender, and region ; War as metaphor : the example of Ernest Hemingway -- The fate of writing during the Great Depression: Discovery of poverty and the return of commitment ; Search for "culture" as a form of commitment ; Three responses : the examples of Henry Miller, Djuna Barnes, and John Dos Passos ; Cowboys, detectives, and other tough-guy antinomians : residual individualism and hedged commitments ; Search for shared purpose : struggles on the left ; Documentary literature and the disarming of dissent ; Southern renaissance : forms of reaction and innovation ; History and novels, novels and history : the example of William Faulkner.
0521452856 (hc)
93030651
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature and anthropology--United States.
Ficción estadounidense--Historia y crítica.--Siglo 20
Ficción estadounidense--Historia y crítica.--Siglo 19
La literatura y la antropología--Estados Unidos.
PS 379 / M667c 1994
813
A cultural history of the American novel : Henry James to William Faulkner / David Minter. - Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994. - xxiii, 266 p. ; 24 cm.
"New edition"--P. xii. "First published 1994"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-252) and index.
A dream city, lyric years, and a great war: Novel as ironic reflection ; Confidence and uncertainty in The portrait of a lady ; Lines of expansion ; Four contemporaries and the closing of the West ; Chicago's "dream city" ; Frederick Jackson Turner in the dream city ; Henry Adams's Education and the grammar of progress ; Jack London's career and popular discourse ; Innocence and revolt in the "lyric years": 1900-1916 ; Armory show of 1913 and the decline of innocence ; Play of hope and despair ; The great war and the fate of writing -- Fiction in a time of plenty: When the war was over : the return of detachment ; The "jazz age" and the "lost generation" revisited ; Perils of plenty, or how the twenties acquired a paranoid tilt ; Disenchantment, flight, and the rise of professionalism in an age of plenty ; Class, power, and violence in a new age ; Fear of feminization and the logic of modest ambition ; Marginality and authority, race, gender, and region ; War as metaphor : the example of Ernest Hemingway -- The fate of writing during the Great Depression: Discovery of poverty and the return of commitment ; Search for "culture" as a form of commitment ; Three responses : the examples of Henry Miller, Djuna Barnes, and John Dos Passos ; Cowboys, detectives, and other tough-guy antinomians : residual individualism and hedged commitments ; Search for shared purpose : struggles on the left ; Documentary literature and the disarming of dissent ; Southern renaissance : forms of reaction and innovation ; History and novels, novels and history : the example of William Faulkner.
0521452856 (hc)
93030651
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature and anthropology--United States.
Ficción estadounidense--Historia y crítica.--Siglo 20
Ficción estadounidense--Historia y crítica.--Siglo 19
La literatura y la antropología--Estados Unidos.
PS 379 / M667c 1994
813