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Product details
- ISBN 9781859842003
- Weight: 365g
- Dimensions: 157 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Dec 1998
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Chip Rhodes is Assistant Professor of American Literature at Colorado State University and is currently working on a book on the Hollywood novel.
