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On Native Grounds

By Alfred Kazin

On Native Grounds Social Sciences

On Native Grounds

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On its debut, this brilliant, innovative, and influential study established Alfred Kazin's reputation as a leading literary critic. Now, in its fiftieth year of publication, Kazin's work is as relevant as on the day it was first written, a classic that brings fresh perspective to our interpretation of the literature belonging to what many consider the golden era of American letters. Kazin discusses the work of Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, and William Faulkner, among others writing in the period embraced by the Civil War and World War II, and declares this era the advent of a truly American literary style: sensitive to economic and social issues while expressing an intense national consciousness. Importantly, Kazin believes that this emerging American literature reflected not simply a reaction to Victorian gentility and repression but something greater -- the moral transformation of our entire society under the gathering impact of industrialization, science, and world wars. It was this idea of a nation's principal literary figures being bound so directly to its social development that made Kazin's analysis revolutionary and that maintains its vitality fifty years later.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
572
Release Date:
1995-04-15
Publication Date:
1995-05-19
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
015668750X
ISBN13:
9780156687508
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
797 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
34 cm
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