Stratford-Upon Avon Studies. 13. The American Novel and the Nineteen Twenties

London England: Edward Arnold, 1971. Paperback. Very slight browning to cover. These new essays by distinguished historians and critics look afresh at the remarkable group of Ameircan novelists which emerged during the 1920s - that period of change, passion and experimentalism beginning after the First World War and reaching its climax in the Great Depression. The great names are of course William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Nathanael West, Sinclair Lewis and Sherwood Anderson. But this book, while looking at these and other novelists in detail, is also an exercise in cultural studies. It has been assumed that it is important and necessary, in considering these writers whose merits are still the subject of intense discussion and disagreement, to look behind them at the decade of the twenties itself - years that dsaw the transformation of American culture and the start of a new stylistic era. These essays thus re-examine the complex relationship between literature and culture, and in terms of this re-assess the importance of particular authors, reconsider the success of the American experiement in fiction, and re-evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their radicalism and moral commitment. 269 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . 1st Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.