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A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War

Mark W Van Wienen editor Tim Dayton editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:4th Feb '21

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This book explores American literature and culture of the First World War while analyzing the war's historical context and significance.

The collection explores the various, often conflicting representations of the war offered by US writers, artists, intellectuals, and political figures. This multidisciplinary study, a collaboration of premier scholars, serves readers and students interested in American literature, history, and politics as well as specialists in these subjects.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.

'… offers a thorough examination of the cultural impact of a war in which the US's role is sometimes given little prominence … this admirable volume … goes beyond the typical Lost Generation roster of Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. E. Cummings et al.' Alice Kelly, The Times Literary Supplement
'Recommended.' T. Bonner Jr., Choice Magazine

ISBN: 9781108475327

Dimensions: 235mm x 160mm x 30mm

Weight: 800g

466 pages