American Modernism, 1910 - 1945
- ISBN-10
- 143811852X
- ISBN-13
- 9781438118529
- Category
- Reference (Philosophy) in literature
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-01-01
- Publisher
- Infobase Publishing
- Author
- Roger Lathbury
Description
A comprehensive reference guide to the modernist movement in American literature, this volume provides a wealth of information on American modernism, the Lost Generation, modernism in the American novel, the Harlem Renaissance, modernism in poetry and drama, and the literary culture of the Moderns. Writers covered include: Countee Cullen, E. E. Cummings, John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sigmund Freud, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and more.
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