After the genteel tradition : American writers, 1910-1930 / With a pref. by Harry T. Moore.

Author/creator Cowley, Malcolm editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoCarbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [©1964]
Descriptionx, 210 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects
American literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--History. --20th century.
Manners and customs in literature.

SeriesCrosscurrents; modern critiques
Crosscurrents/modern critiques.
Contents Foreword: The revolt against gentility / Malcolm Cowley -- Theodore Dreiser / John Chamberlain -- Edwin Arlington Robinson / Malcolm Cowley -- Upton Sinclair / Robert Cantwell -- Willa Cather / Lionel Trilling -- Van Wyck Brooks / Bernard Smith -- Carl Sandburg / Newton Arvin -- Sherwood Anderson / Robert Morss Lovett -- H.L. Mencken / Louis Kronenberger -- Sinclair Lewis / Robert Cantwell -- Eugene O'Neill / Lionel Trilling -- The James Branch Cabell period / Peter Monro Jack -- Two poets: Jeffers and Millay / Hildegarde Flanner -- Dos Passos: poet against the world / Malcolm Cowley -- Homage to Hemingway / John Peale Bishop -- Thomas Wolfe / Hamilton Basso -- Postscript: Twenty years of American literature.
Local noteLittle-58507--305131050049V
LCCN 64011608