Writing the lost generation : expatriate autobiography and American modernism / Craig Monk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monk, Craig, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American prose literature.

Authors, American--France--Paris--20th century--History and criticism.

Authors, American.

Authors, American--Biography--History and criticism.

Autobiography.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Writing the Lost Generation, Craig Monk unlocks a series of neglected texts while reinvigorating our reading of more familiar ones. Well-known autobiographies by Malcolm Cowley, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein are joined here by works from a variety of lesser-known, but still important, expatriate American writers, including Sylvia Beach, Alfred Kreymborg, Samuel Putnam, and Harold Stearns. By bringing together the self-reflective works of the Lost Generation and probing the ways the writers portrayed themselves, Monk provides an exciting and comprehensive overview of modernist expatri

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1. Beyond the Sermonic Tradition; 2. Self-Aggrandizement and Expatriate Reputation; 3. Searching for a Representative Expatriate; 4. Place as a Strategy of Attachment; 5. Patterns of Women's Stories; 6. Revision and Textual Authority; 7. The Afterlife of Expatriate American Autobiography; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-197)and index.

ISBN:

9781587297434

1587297434

OCLC:

297116500