On native grounds : an interpretation of modern American prose literature / by Alfred Kazin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998.

Contributor:

Library of Theodore Dreiser (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American prose literature.

United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

United States.

Intellectual life.

Penn Provenance:

Lee, Charles (donor) (RBC copy)

Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 (bookplate) (Dreiser copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 541 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm

Manufacture:

Cornwall, N. Y. : Printed in the United States of America by The Cornwall Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Reynal & Hitchcock, [1942]

Contents:

pt. 1. The search for reality (1890-1917): The opening struggle for realism; American fin de siècle; Two educations: Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser; Progressivism: the superman and the muckrake; Progressivism: some insurgent scholars; The joyous season

pt. 2. The great liberation (1918-1929): The postwar scene; The new realism: Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis; The exquisites; Elegy and satire: Willa Cather and Ellen Glasgow; Liberals and new humanists; Into the thirties: all the lost generations

pt. 3. The literature of crisis (1930-1940): The revival of naturalism; Criticism at the poles; The rhetoric and the agony; America! America!

Notes:

With half-title.

"Copyright, 1942, by Alfred Kazin."

Includes index.

Cream colored textured boards lettered in green on spine; front cover has rules stamped in blind.

Local Notes:

Dreiser copy has dust-jacket retained.

Dreiser copy has the bookplate of Theodore Dreiser.

Dreiser copy has a few unopened leaves.

Culture Class Collection copy has unopened leaves.

Culture Class Collection copy has underlines and marginal ms. annotations.

OCLC:

269922