
Writing the Lost Generation : Expatriate Autobiography and American Modernism.
Title:
Writing the Lost Generation : Expatriate Autobiography and American Modernism.
Author:
Monk, Craig.
ISBN:
9781587297434
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (231 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Beyond the Sermonic Tradition -- 2. Self-Aggrandizement and Expatriate Reputation -- 3. Searching for a Representative Expatriate -- 4. Place as a Strategy of Attachment -- 5. Patterns of Women's Stories -- 6. Revision and Textual Authority -- 7. The Afterlife of Expatriate American Autobiography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
In Writing the Lost Generation, Craig Monk unlocks a series of neglected texts while reinvigorating our reading of more familiar ones. Well-known autobiographies by Malcolm Cowley, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein are joined here by works from a variety of lesser-known, but still important, expatriate American writers, including Sylvia Beach, Alfred Kreymborg, Samuel Putnam, and Harold Stearns. By bringing together the self-reflective works of the Lost Generation and probing the ways the writers portrayed themselves, Monk provides an exciting and comprehensive overview of modernist expatriates from the United States.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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