Demonstrates that the quest for immediacy, or experiences of direct connection and presence, has propelled the development of American literature and media cult

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American Modern(ist) Epic argues that during the 1920s and ‘30s a cadre of minority novelists revitalized the classic epic form in an effort to recast the Uni

This book gives readers a fresh take on Depression-era poetry in relation to the idea of modernity experienced as crisis.

"In this groundbreaking new study, author Brook Thomas argues that literary analysis can enhance our historical understanding of race and Reconstruction. The st