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BL
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| Record Number
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664008
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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McDonald, Gail
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| Title & Author
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American literature and culture, 1900-1960 /\ Gail McDonald
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| Publication Statement
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Malden, MA :: Blackwell Pub.,, 2007
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| Series Statement
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Blackwell introductions to literature ;; 16
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xxiii, 243 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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1405101261 (alk. paper)
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: 9781405101264 (alk. paper)
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: 140510127X (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9781405101271 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-230) and index
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| Contents
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1. Big : Expansion and its discontents -- The city -- Representing nature -- Apocalypse -- The sense of place -- 2. Rich : Weber and Veblen: Reasons to work and reasons to spend -- USA -- Work and identity -- Labor reform -- Consumption and identity -- 3. New : Beginning anew: Crevecoeur and Hawthorne -- Young America -- Making it new I: literary modernism -- Making it new II: the other arts -- 4. Free : The multiple meanings of freedom -- War and the affirmation of American values -- Writing war -- Upstream against the mainstream -- "An inescapable network of mutuality"
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American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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National characteristics, American, in literature
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Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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United States, Civilization, 20th century
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United States, In literature
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| LC Classification
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PS221.M394 2007
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