Examines the literary period between World War I and World War II when modernist American writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and William Faulkner prospered.
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Examines the literary period between World War I and World War II when modernist American writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and William Faulkner prospered.
America in the 1920s and '30s saw the emergence of some of the best-known writers of the modern generation :
The essays bring out the focus to shifting morals, searches for solid identities, and the inevitable tensions caused by the economic decline and the rift between the old and the new in the writings of the era.
During this period between the two World Wars, modernism flourished among American writers. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbec, WIlliam Faulkner, and Gertrude Stein, emerged to spread ideas of experimentation, expansion and a questioning of values that formed t…