The American 1930s - A Literary History (Hardcover)

Beginning with the stock market crash of 1929 and ending with America's entry into the Second World War, the long Depression decade was a period of immense social, economic and political turmoil. In response, writers as various as John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, Langston Hughes, Pearl S. Buck and others looked to the past to make sense of the present. In this important new study of the 1930s, the distinguished cultural historian Peter Conn traces the extensive and complex engagement with the past that characterized the imaginative writing of the decade. Moving expertly between historical events and literature, Conn includes discussions of historical novels, plays and poems, biographies and autobiographies, as well as factual and imaginary works of history. Mapping the decade's extraordinary intellectual range with authority and flair, The American 1930s is a widely anticipated contribution to American literary studies.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2009
First published:	March 2009
Authors:	Peter Conn
Dimensions:	229 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-51640-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	0-521-51640-4
Barcode:	9780521516402

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