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

Title
Structures of the Jazz Age : mass culture, progressive education, and racial discourse in American modernism / Chip Rhodes.
Author
Rhodes, Chip.
Publication
London ; New York : Verso, 1998.

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Description
218 p.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
The Haymarket series
Subject
  • 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
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-214) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 99-4047
ISBN
  • 1859848338 (cloth)
  • 1859842003 (pbk.)
LCCN
98030213
OCLC
39498561
Author
Rhodes, Chip.
Title
Structures of the Jazz Age : mass culture, progressive education, and racial discourse in American modernism / Chip Rhodes.
Imprint
London ; New York : Verso, 1998.
Series
The Haymarket series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-214) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 99-4047
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