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American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930

Hardback

Main Details

Title American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Ichiro Takayoshi
SeriesAmerican Literature in Transition
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:510
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 160
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
ISBN/Barcode 9781108418218
ClassificationsDewey:810.90052
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 6 Halftones, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 28 December 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 examines the dynamic interactions between social and literary fields during the so-called Jazz Age. It situates the era's place in the incremental evolution of American literature throughout the twentieth century. Essays from preeminent critics and historians analyze many overlapping aspects of American letters in the 1920s and re-evaluate an astonishingly diverse group of authors. Expansive in scope and daring in its mixture of eclectic methods, this book extends the most exciting advances made in the last several decades in the fields of modernist studies, ethnic literatures, African-American literature, gender studies, transnational studies, and the history of the book. It examines how the world of literature intersected with other arts, such as cinema, jazz, and theater, and explores the print culture in transition, with a focus on new publishing houses, trends in advertising, readership, and obscenity laws.

Author Biography

Ichiro Takayoshi teaches modern American literature and social thought at Tufts University, Massachusetts. He is the author of American Writers and the Approach of World War II: A Literary History (Cambridge, 2015) and editor of American Literature in Transition: The 1930s (Cambridge, 2017). He is currently at work on a literary and intellectual history of the interwar decades.