McDonald, Gail,

American literature and culture, 1900-1960 / Gail McDonald. - xxiii, 243 páginas : ilustraciones - Blackwell introductions to literature ; 16 .

Incluye bibliografía (p. 217-230).

1. Big : Expansion and its discontents -- The city -- Representing nature -- Apocalypse -- The sense of place -- 2. Rich : Weber and Veblen: Reasons to work and reasons to spend -- USA -- Work and identity -- Labor reform -- Consumption and identity -- 3. New : Beginning anew: Crevecoeur and Hawthorne -- Young America -- Making it new I: literary modernism -- Making it new II: the other arts -- 4. Free : The multiple meanings of freedom -- War and the affirmation of American values -- Writing war -- Upstream against the mainstream -- ´An inescapable network of mutuality´.

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Literatura estadounidense--Historia y crítica.--Siglo XX

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