The Jazz Age and Great Depression, 1920-1941
By: Jeffrey H. Hacker, editor
Series: History through literature : American voices, American themes
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Armonk, New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780765683434; 9780765683281; 9780765683298
Subjects: Sources; History; Intellectual life; Depressions; Literature and history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter one, The good earth (excerpt), 1931 / Pearl S. Buck; title: "Newsreel LXIII" and "Architect," The Big Money, 1936 / John Dos Passos; title: Part One, The Waste Land, 1922 / T.S. Eliot; title: Chapter 13, Judgment Day (excerpt), 1935 / James T. Farrell; title: "A Rose for Emily," 1930 / William Faulkner; title: Book Two, Chapter Two, The Beautiful and Damned (excerpt), 1922 / F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: Selected Early Poems / Robert Frost; title: Chapter One, A Farewell to Arms, 1929 / Ernest Hemingway; title: Selected Poems / Langston Hughes; title: Chapter One, Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937 / Zora Neale Hurston; title: Chapter One, Babbitt (excerpt), 1922 / Lewis, Sinclair; title: Selected Poems, A Few Figs from Thistles, 1920 / Edna St. Vincent Millay; title: Scene Five, The Hairy Ape, 1922 / Eugene O'Neill; title: Inaugural Address, 1933 / Franklin D. Roosevelt; title: Selected Early Poems / Carl Sandburg; title: Chapters One and Three, The Grapes of Wrath, 1939 / John Steinbeck; title: Chapter Five, "The Hidden Terror," You Can't Go Home Again (excerpt), 1940 / Thomas Wolfe.