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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 346–368.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Abigail Cheever Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 Prozac Americans: Depression,
Identity, and Selfhood
Abigail Cheever
ecounting the circumstances that led to Darkness Visible: A Memoir of
Madness, William Styron claims he decided to write his...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 225–234.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Lisa Tyler [email protected] The Green Depression: American Ecoliterature in the 1930s and 1940s , by Lambert Matthew M. . Jackson : University Press of Mississippi , 2020 . 209 pages. Copyright © 2022 Hofstra University 2022 Rachel Carson’s 1962 nonfiction...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 199–224.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Eric Strand Although our recovery of Elizabeth Bishop’s politics has involved seeing her as a resistant “outsider,” this essay argues that she was at her most challenging as an inhabitant of poetic institutions. Exemplifying the vexed status of the Depression-era writer after the crash...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 191–212.
Published: 01 June 2017
... her early writing about ethnic women, through her more recondite grammatical experiments, to her public emergence at the outset of the Depression. And I argue that Stein’s move from literary experiments rooted in the question of identity to her conservative rhetoric about white masculinity...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 277–285.
Published: 01 June 2010
...) as “a profound analytical index, a
means to access the mid-century’s conception of authenticity as it relates
to persons,” and explores a variety of types with different attitudes toward
phoniness: the teenager, the depressed person, the serial killer, the Jew, the
corporate man. Real Phonies argues...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 681–689.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Robert Jackson Violet America: Regional Cosmopolitanism in US Fiction Since the Great Depression , by Arthur Jason , University of Iowa Press , 2013 . 184 pages. Finding Purple America: The South and the Future of American Cultural Studies , by Smith Jon , University...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 317–344.
Published: 01 September 2021
... the course of the 1930s, The Girl chronicles the practices of endurance of a group of women confronting poverty, hunger, rape, and other forms of abuse during the Great Depression. It is comprised of the heteroglossic interior monologue of a young woman working at a speakeasy in St. Paul, Minnesota. Beyond...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 June 2021
... already made everything necessary abundantly available to the reader’s eye. Beginning with an examination of how feeling flat involves, for Smith, a set of emotions more diverse and complex than just depression, this essay moves into outlining how flat landscapes offer Smith a mode of lingering...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 514–525.
Published: 01 December 2008
... of Mirth in
order to show how, after Darwin, the Progressive era debated the extent
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Robert Chodat
to which pauperism was a biological condition. By the Depression, argues
Jones in his final chapter, poverty was primarily a psychological state, a
“profound bewilderment, discord, uncertainty...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 269–276.
Published: 01 June 2010
...
an astonishing diversity of now-neglected novels about race mixing,
lynching, black migration, suburban materialism, careerism, the testing
of female identity, the assimilation of immigrants, and the middle-class
instability produced by the Depression. While some authors of this fiction
have been...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 414–421.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to the 1950s,
though four of its seven chapters deal with the 1930s, when Fitzgerald
and Parker—thanks to the explosive and reductive effects of the Great
Depression on the film and publishing industries respectively–did the
bulk of their work in Hollywood. In each chapter, Cerasulo alternates
among...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 115–124.
Published: 01 March 2000
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Benert, Annette Larson. “Edith Wharton at War: Civilized Space in Troubled
Times.” 42.3 (1996): 322-43
Bendey, Paul. “Depression and Ted...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 307–342.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of colonial domination and displacement, enslavement, and capitalist exploitation in the Americas. In the same vein, the itinerant family’s “weighed down . . . old Chevy Capri station wagon,” loaded with all of “their belongings,” offers an almost Steinbeckian image of Depression-era privation and Dust Bowl...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 239–266.
Published: 01 September 2017
... things out of the air” ( Chamberlain 1934) —captured Depression-era “bewilderment and waste almost perfectly” ( Cantwell 1934 , 53) in “quite simply and dogmatically the best novel of contemporary New York City” ( Chamberlain 1934) . 1 The novel’s short-lived burst of popularity registered on best...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 451–474.
Published: 01 December 2017
...-radio,” she’d informed Ezra Pound in November 1931 ( SL 260) 7 —yet her resistance had waned in the worst years of the Depression, and keeping up with current affairs had become a regular point of fascination and debate between Marianne and Mary Moore in the course of Roosevelt’s ethereal rise...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2010
... nature of British community and national
identity. It is hardly surprising that Woolf would return to the theme of
communal loss more than a decade after the end of the First World War.
During the 1920s and 1930s economic depression, labor unrest, colonial
rebellions, and the growing threat...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 285–310.
Published: 01 September 2000
... despondency? No one ques
tions John Hull’s sanity when his reaction to depression, recorded in his
memoir on blindness, “is to go even further inwards, into a deeper dead
ness” (62). In fact, Hull’s description of what he labels “a technique for
fighting depression” closely resembles Molly’s behavior...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 272–276.
Published: 01 June 2011
... became depressed and questioned
their ability to write. In her afterword, Lillios points out that “time ran out
for both Hurston and Rawlings” (183). Yet she maintains that, in time, the
work that they produced in the latter part of their lives will be vindicated
and contextualized.
Rawlings...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 322–356.
Published: 01 September 2009
... portrays the politics and economics of “appear-
ing in print” in the mid 1930s as corrupt and narrow, so that nothing
about the literary scene comes out looking appealing. She frames the
essay in terms of Depression politics, noting that she and the rest of her
“puritanically pink” Vassar cohort...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 540–545.
Published: 01 September 2012
... to the most reductive type of interpretation, treating
his novels as puzzles to be solved like an elaborate game of Myst. Such
an approach is ultimately depressing and disheartening, leaving one with
little incentive to spend time with the work in question again, once its
mystery has been conclusively...
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