Structures of the Jazz Age : mass culture, progressive education, and racial discourse in American modernism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rhodes, Chip
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Verso, 1998.
Series:	Haymarket series
Subjects:	American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) > United States. Progressive education > United States. Popular culture in literature. Race relations in literature. Primitivism in literature. Mass media in literature. Education in literature. Nineteen twenties.

Table of Contents:

Intellectuals and the contemptible masses: H.L. Mencken and Irving Babbitt
American modernism, aesthetics and man-made truths: Willa Cather and John Dos Passos
Limited prosperity and republican ascension: the conjunctural coordinates of twenties culture
Personality, mass culture and class: the novels of Harry Leon Wilson and Theodore Dreiser
Progressive education, essentialism and ethnicity: Anzia Yezierska and Ludwig Lewisohn
Primitive desires and the desire for the primitive: DuBose Heyward and Nella Larsen.