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- War and American Literature
- Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
- War and American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Aspects of War in American Literature
- Part II Cultural Moments and the American Literary Imagination
- Chapter 8 Liberty, Freedom, Independence, and War
- Chapter 9 Indians, Defeat, Persistence, and Resistance
- Chapter 10 Civil War Literature and Memory
- Chapter 11 African American Literature, Citizenship, and War, 1863–1932
- Chapter 12 World War I and Cultural Change in America
- Chapter 13 On the Home Fronts of Two World Wars
- Chapter 14 Patriotism, Nationalism, Globalism
- Chapter 15 The “Good War” Script
- Chapter 16 The Vietnam War and Its Legacy
- Chapter 17 The Forever Wars
- Part III New Lines of Inquiry
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 12 - World War I and Cultural Change in America
from Part II - Cultural Moments and the American Literary Imagination
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2021
- War and American Literature
- Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
- War and American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Aspects of War in American Literature
- Part II Cultural Moments and the American Literary Imagination
- Chapter 8 Liberty, Freedom, Independence, and War
- Chapter 9 Indians, Defeat, Persistence, and Resistance
- Chapter 10 Civil War Literature and Memory
- Chapter 11 African American Literature, Citizenship, and War, 1863–1932
- Chapter 12 World War I and Cultural Change in America
- Chapter 13 On the Home Fronts of Two World Wars
- Chapter 14 Patriotism, Nationalism, Globalism
- Chapter 15 The “Good War” Script
- Chapter 16 The Vietnam War and Its Legacy
- Chapter 17 The Forever Wars
- Part III New Lines of Inquiry
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
This essay explores a host of war-wrought cultural changes that postwar literature documented, celebrated, and critiqued. Literature itself changed in response to World War I and helped remake the social world in its wake in diverse and contradictory ways. Writers celebrated postwar modernity and freedom, but also articulated pessimism and developed new genres to convey the experience of violence. Writers discussed include John Dos Passos, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, and more.
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- War and American Literature , pp. 180 - 193Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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