Author

Publication

1984 - Knopf, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

102,000 words, Guess

Page Count

408 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing76521

Classifications

  • DDC810/.9
  • LCCPS88 .K3 1984

Description

In this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning when Ralph Waldo Emerson left the church and inspired a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending with the triumph of modernism - Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, Fitzgerald - and with the revelation after World War I of the "postponed power" of those who had been modern before their time: Henry Adams, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson.

Description

A study of the major American writers from the 1830's to the 1930's.

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Other Editions

  • An American processionKnopf1984-01-01

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