
Structures of the Jazz Age
Mass Culture, Progressive Education and Racial Disclosures in American Modernism
Chip Rhodes(Author)
Verso Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 17. December 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
218 pages
978-1-85984-200-3 (ISBN)
Description
Structures of the Jazz Age charts the 1920s cultural landscape populated by critical intellectuals like H.L. Mencken and Irving Babbitt, and by major imaginative writers like Dos Passos, Cather and Dreiser. Looking beyond the mainstream to more marginal schools of thought, including progressive educational philosophy, the critique of mass culture, and the cult of primitivism-exemplified in less canonized figures like Anzia Yezierska, Harry Leon Wilson and DuBose Heyward. He shows how these different strands were woven together in a way that helped to sustain Republican rule and an expanding economy, until the entire edifice came tumbling down in the stock market crash of 1929.
Reviews / Votes
Did writers of the 1920s resign from history? Did their decade interrupt the main continuities of American culture? No and no, says chip Rhodes. In this comprehensive and highly original study, he looks deeply into the political economy of the time, reunites it with culture, and produces fine studies of both canonical and half-remembered writers. The twenties will never look the same again. -- Richard OhmannMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
358 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85984-200-3 (9781859842003)
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Structures of the Jazz Age
Mass Culture, Progressive Education and Racial Disclosures in American Modernism
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12/1998
Verso Books
€106.66
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Chip Rhodes is Assistant Professor of American Literature at Colorado State University and is currently working on a book on the Hollywood novel.