The Cambridge History of American Literature, volume 7
Subtitle: Prose Writing 1940-1990 (The Cambridge History of American Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 28, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 800
ISBN-13: 9780521497329
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 20th Century American Prose; American Literature (General); American English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - General; American literature--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; American literature; History and criticism
First sentence: THE UNITED STATES emerged from the Second World War with a powerful economy, a restored faith in capitalism, and a society rededicated to national myths of material advancement and moral and ideological purity.