In the decade following World War I, American literature won a large and enthusiastic reading public in Europe. With the exception of such writers as James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Mark Twain, American literature had been virtually unknown before the war, yet, in 1930, Sweden awarded the Nobel Prize in literature to Sinclair Lewis, probably the most dramatic sign of the critical upheaval that had been taking place in European attitudes toward American culture.
The Swedish Acceptance of American Literature is a study of this radical shift in opinion as it occurred in...
In the decade following World War I, American literature won a large and enthusiastic reading public in Europe. With the exception of such writers ...
