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American 1930s

Peter Conn
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      Beginning with the stock market crash of 1929 and ending with America's entry into the Second World War, the long Depression decade was a period of immense social, economic and political turmoil. In response, writers as various as John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, Langston Hughes, Pearl S. Buck and others looked to the past to make sense of the present. In this important new study of the 1930s, the distinguished cultural historian Peter Conn traces the extensive and complex engagement with the past that characterized the imaginative writing of the decade. Moving expertly between historical events and literature, Conn includes discussions of historical novels, plays and poems, biographies and autobiographies, as well as factual and imaginary works of history. Mapping the decade's extraordinary intellectual range with authority and flair, The American 1930s is a widely anticipated contribution to American literary studies.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Peter Conn EAN: 9780521516402 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 580 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2009-02-19 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, English, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, History of the Americas, Social and cultural history

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      Peter Conn is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
      Beginning with the stock market crash of 1929 and ending with America's entry into the Second World War, the long Depression decade was a period of immense social, economic and political turmoil. In response, writers as various as John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, Langston Hughes, Pearl S. Buck and others looked to the past to make sense of the present. In this important new study of the 1930s, the distinguished cultural historian Peter Conn traces the extensive and complex engagement with the past that characterized the imaginative writing of the decade. Moving expertly between historical events and literature, Conn includes discussions of historical novels, plays and poems, biographies and autobiographies, as well as factual and imaginary works of history. Mapping the decade's extraordinary intellectual range with authority and flair, The American 1930s is a widely anticipated contribution to American literary studies.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Peter Conn EAN: 9780521516402 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 580 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2009-02-19 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, English, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, History of the Americas, Social and cultural history

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      Peter Conn is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

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