American Modernism: (1910-1945) (Background to American Literature)

Each title in this series examines the history, development, and people integral to the evolution of American literature in an attempt to place popular American literature in its historical and cultural context. 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 A comprehensive reference guide to the modernist movement in American literature, this volume provides 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 Robert Frost, T S Eliot, and others. American modernism The lost generation Modernism in the American novel : Dos Passos and Faulkner The Harlem Renaissance (1919-1929) Modernism in poetry and drama Literary culture of the moderns Timeline. "Explores the social, cultural, and historical contexts of American literature from 1910 to 1945"--Page 4 of cover