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Volume 6 of The Cambridge History of American Literature explores the emergence and flowering of modernism in the United States. David Minter provides a cultural history of the American novel from the ‘lyric years’ to World War I, through post-World War I disillusionment, to the consolidation of the Left in response to the mire of the Great Depression. Rafia Zafar tells the story of the Harlem Renaissance, detailing the artistic accomplishments of such diverse figures as Zora Neal Hurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Richard Wright. Werner Sollors examines canonical texts as well as popular magazines and hitherto unknown immigrant writing from the period. Taken together these narratives cover the entire range of literary prose written in the first half of the twentieth century, offering a model of literary history for our times, focusing as they do on the intricate interplay between text and context.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #2465762 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 640 pages

Review
'… this is, without doubt and without any serious rival, the scholarly history for our generation.' Journal of American Studies

‘… vast and eminently readable survey of twentieth century American literature …’. Use of English