World War One, American Literature, and the Federal State

ISBN-13: 9781108473835 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 282 str.

Mark Whalan

Opis

This book shows an empowered federal state as a significant factor in experimental American culture well before the 1930s

Recenzje

'Whalan's well-researched and wide-ranging study is a valuable contribution to revisionary modernist studies.' John Carlos Rowe, American Literary History

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Credits; Introduction; 1. Freeloading in hobohemia: antimodernism, free verse, and the state in American World War One periodical culture; 2. Letters from a soldier: wartime letters and states of intimacy; 3. The regional novel and the wartime state; 4. USA., World War One, and the petromodern state; 5. Fictions of rehabilititation; Conclusion; Notes.