The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature

by Michael Soto

Book Overview

The Modernist Nation examines why America's modern literary movements have come to be characterized as "generations" and "renaissances," such as the Lost Generation and the Beat Generation or the Harlem, Southern, and San Francisco Renaissances. The metaphor of rebirth, Michael Soto argues, offered and continues to offer American writers a kind of shorthand for imagining American cultural history, especially as a departure from Old World...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817354670
• ISBN13: 9780817354671
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.7"