Author: John Lowney File Type: pdf In this nuanced revisionist history of modern American poetry, John Lowney investigates the Depression eras impact on late modernist American poetry from the socioeconomic crisis of the 1930s through the emergence of the new social movements of the 1960s. Informed by an ongoing scholarly reconsideration of 1930s American culture and concentrating on Left writers whose historical consciousness was profoundly shaped by the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, Lowney articulates the Lefts challenges to national collective memory and redefines the importance of late modernism in American literary history. The late modernist writers Lowney studies most closely---Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Thomas McGrath, and George Oppen---are not all customarily associated with the 1930s, nor are they commonly seen as literary peers. By examining these late modernist writers comparatively, Lowney foregrounds differences of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and social class and region while emphasizing how each writer developed poetic forms that responded to the cultural politics and socioaesthetic debates of the 1930s. In so doing he calls into question the boundaries that have limited the scholarly dialogue about modern poetry. No other study of American poetry has considered the particular gathering of careers that Lowney considers. As poets whose collective historical consciousness was profoundly shaped by the turmoil of the Depression and war years and the Cold Wars repression or rewriting of history, their diverse talents represent a distinct generational impact on U.S. and international literary history.ReviewRevisiting the vital political debates that defined public culture in the United States from World War I to the Cold War, John Lowneys History, Memory, and the Literary Left offers an original and important account of poetrys power to witness to distinctively American sites of modernist memory.---Walter Kalaidjian, Emory University About the AuthorJohn Lowney is associate professor of English at St. Johns University, New York. Author of The American Avant-Garde Tradition William Carlos Williams, Postmodern Poetry, and the Politics of Cultural Memory, he has also published many essays on twentieth-century American poetry and African American literature.

Author: Timothy Unwin File Type: epub This volume brings together a series of essays by acknowledged experts on Flaubert. It offers a coherent overview of the writers work and critical legacy, and provides insights into the very latest scholarly thinking. While a central place is given to Flauberts most widely read texts, attention is also paid to key areas of the corpus that have tended to be overlooked. Close textual analyses are accompanied by discussion of broader theoretical issues, and by a consideration of Flauberts place in the wider traditions that he both inherited and influenced. These essays provide not only a robust critical framework for readers of Flaubert, but also a fuller understanding of why he continues to exert such a powerful influence on literature and literary studies today. A concluding essay by the prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa examines Flauberts legacy from the point of view of the modern novelist.

Author: Roderick Floud File Type: pdf ReviewThe Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain has all the hallmarks of a mature textbook. Economic History Review... these volumes are the best available economic history of modern Britain. They demonstrate not only the vitality of the subject but its fundamental importance and relevance. History Book DescriptionThe Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain is a readable and comprehensive account of the economic history of Britain since 1700, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of leading scholars from around the world to produce a set of volumes which are both a lucid textbook for undergraduate students and an authoritative guide to the subject.

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