A History of American Literature

Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 307 mystery of her nature began to trouble her.” “Born a Bohemian,” as indeed Eaton was, ...

308 Making It New: 1900–1945 A History of American Literature, Second Edition. Richard Gray. © 2012 Richard Gray. Published 2012 ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 309 collisions.” Such alterations, Adams believed, would affect all cultures, but particularly those st ...

310 Making It New: 1900–1945 normalcy on the nation at large. In 1926 the National Broadcasting Company, and the following year ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 311 completely supplanted stability. In 1891, on July 4, a Muncie merchant had noted in his diary that ...

312 Making It New: 1900–1945 modes of thought and expression and absorbed into literary and artistic movements that ignored the ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 313 nursing, and librarianship, tended to be ones with low pay and social status; to that extent, they ...

314 Making It New: 1900–1945 names, their land, their place in an ancient community, their predicament encouraged writers to soc ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 315 worlds into words. There was, of course, no settled answer to any of these aspects of the question; ...

316 Making It New: 1900–1945 claimed they wanted to recover. At its worst here, fear of the new led not only to the trial of som ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 317 the desire to reinvent past times. Other ways, many of them, were offered by writers of this era as ...

318 Making It New: 1900–1945 the vocabulary – political, economic, or imaginative – adequately to confront and possibly to deal ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 319 contemporary problems in the politicization of poetry and the aestheticizing of politics and, event ...

320 Making It New: 1900–1945 Hemingway in For Whom the Bell Tolls – turned, with an equal sense of urgency, to writing about the ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 321 explained; of his mother, he knew little and of his father, even less – indeed, he did not “even kn ...

322 Making It New: 1900–1945 Blacks should learn to “cast it down in agriculture, mechanics, in commerce, in domestic service, a ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 323 Negro.” It was a “gospel of Work and Money” founded on a “triple paradox,” by which Du Bois meant t ...

324 Making It New: 1900–1945 of the trouble involved, not in being hidden from “the Lord,” but in being hidden from oneself. It ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 325 Johnson’s “ex-colored” hero crosses the racial barrier no less than four times because, being to al ...

326 Making It New: 1900–1945 gambler and occasional musician in a New York nightclub, he tells us that he acquired a reputation ...