Our Conrad : Constituting American Modernity.
Title:
Our Conrad : Constituting American Modernity.
Author:
Mallios, Peter.
ISBN:
9780804775717
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (485 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The American Invention of Joseph Conrad -- I. The Nation in the World, the World in the Nation -- 1. In the Crucible of War: Immigration, Democracy, and H. L. Mencken -- 2. Appositions: Jews, Anglo-Saxons, Women, African-Americans -- II. American Modernism Abroad -- 3. All a Conrad Generation: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Other Expatriates -- III. Regions of Conflict -- 4. Under Southern Eyes: Visions of the South in the 1920s -- 5. Faulkner's Conrad -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
Our Conrad is a literary and cultural history, political in emphasis, of the modern American invention of Joseph Conrad as a "master" literary figure as well as a call to transnationalize the field of American literary and cultural studies.
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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