A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War
Title | A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Dayton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 749 |
Release | 2021-02-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108593879 |
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.
War and American Literature
Title | War and American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Haytock |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 698 |
Release | 2021-02-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108757162 |
This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and scholarship in the field. War and American Literature provides a comprehensive synthesis of the literature and scholarship of US war writing, illuminates how themes, texts, and authors resonate across time and wars, and provides multiple contexts in which texts and a war's literature can be framed. By focusing on American war writing, from the wars with the Native Americans and the Revolutionary War to the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this volume illuminates the unique role representations of war have in the US imagination.
Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War
Title | Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War PDF eBook |
Author | Lissa Paul |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2015-12-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317361660 |
Because all wars in the twenty-first century are potentially global wars, the centenary of the first global war is the occasion for reflection. This volume offers an unprecedented account of the lives, stories, letters, games, schools, institutions (such as the Boy Scouts and YMCA), and toys of children in Europe, North America, and the Global South during the First World War and surrounding years. By engaging with developments in Children’s Literature, War Studies, and Education, and mining newly available archival resources (including letters written by children), the contributors to this volume demonstrate how perceptions of childhood changed in the period. Children who had been constructed as Romantic innocents playing safely in secure gardens were transformed into socially responsible children actively committing themselves to the war effort. In order to foreground cross-cultural connections across what had been perceived as ‘enemy’ lines, perspectives on German, American, British, Australian, and Canadian children’s literature and culture are situated so that they work in conversation with each other. The multidisciplinary, multinational range of contributors to this volume make it distinctive and a particularly valuable contribution to emerging studies on the impact of war on the lives of children.
The Great War and the Culture of the New Negro
Title | The Great War and the Culture of the New Negro PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Whalan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 9780813045993 |
Examining the legacy of the Great War on African American culture, this book considers the work of such canonical writers as W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen and Alain Locke. It also considers the legacy of the war for African Americans as represented in film, photography and anthropology.
American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War
Title | American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Belletto |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2012-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1609381130 |
Authors and artists discussed include: Joseph Conrad, Edwin Denby, Joan Didion, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Allen Ginsberg, Frank Berbert, Richard Kim, Norman Mailer, Malcolm X, Alan Nadel, and John Updike,
World War One, American Literature, and the Federal State
Title | World War One, American Literature, and the Federal State PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Whalan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2018-09-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108571557 |
In this book, Mark Whalan argues that World War One's major impact on US culture was not the experience of combat trauma, but rather the effects of the expanded federal state bequeathed by US mobilization. Writers bristled at the state's new intrusions and coercions, but were also intrigued by its creation of new social ties and political identities. This excitement informed early American modernism, whose literary experiments often engaged the political innovations of the Progressive state at war. Writers such as Wallace Stevens, John Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Zane Grey, and Edith Wharton were fascinated by wartime discussions over the nature of US citizenship, and also crafted new forms of writing that could represent a state now so complex it seemed to defy representation at all. And many looked to ordinary activities transformed by the war - such as sending mail, receiving healthcare, or driving a car - to explore the state's everyday presence in American lives.
The First World War as a Clash of Cultures
Title | The First World War as a Clash of Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick George Thomas Bridgham |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1571133402 |
Contains essays examining the perceived tensions between British and German cultural traditions and beliefs before 1914 and how popular literature, public debate, cultural distinction, and war-time propaganda determined historical, political, and military events leading to war.