By Priscilla Wald, Michael A. Elliott
Witnessing the top of a conflict that almost terminated the state, the abolition of racial slavery and upward thrust of felony segregation, the increase of Modernism and Hollywood, the remaining of the frontier and international Wars, the literary ancient interval represented during this quantity constitutes the crucible of yankee literary heritage. the following, 35 essays by means of most sensible researchers within the box aspect how concerns of race and citizenship; immigration and assimilation; gender and sexuality; nationalism and empire; all reverberate all through novels written within the usa among 1870 and 1940. participants talk about the professionalization of literary creation after the Civil conflict along felony and political debates over segregation and citizenship; whereas chapters on journalism, geography, faith, and immigration supply discussions on every little thing from the lasting position of literary realism in American fiction to the Spanish-American War's impression on constructing theories of aesthetics and pop culture. the quantity bargains thorough assurance of the emergence of serial fiction, kid's fiction, crime and detective fiction, technology fiction, or even cinema and comics, as new media and inventive revolutions just like the Harlem Renaissance helped herald the recent foreign aesthetic circulate of Modernism. the ultimate chapters within the quantity discover the connection of the radical to the emergence of "American literature" as a class within the academy, in public feedback and journalism, and in mass culture.
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