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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2021
      February 2021
      ISBN:
      9781108615433
      9781108475327
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108615433
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.8kg, 466 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature 1900-1945
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    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature 1900-1945
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    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.

    Awards

    Winner, 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles

    Reviews

    '… 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 Source: The Times Literary Supplement

    ‘Recommended.’

    T. Bonner Jr. Source: Choice Magazine

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