A History of American Literature

Making It New: 1900–1945 447 appeared in 1936. In the biography, Lincoln appears as an embodiment of the American dream; while, ...

448 Making It New: 1900–1945 Predictably, his hopes remained unrealized; less predictably, and more tragically, he committed sui ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 449 Genevieve Taggard (1894–1948) offered a succinct, laconic, but almost novelistic account of a farm ...

450 Making It New: 1900–1945 where the writer made his home. There is nothing strained or artificial about such lines. “Poetry,” ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 451 publication of this truth. They were indispensable, in fact, to the rediscovery of community. Somet ...

452 Making It New: 1900–1945 meditation on personal death, inspired perhaps by Andrew Marvell’s famous lines: “But at my back I ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 453 of city life (“Do the Dead Know What Time It Is?”) and fierce jeremiads directed “to falsity, the s ...

454 Making It New: 1900–1945 prescience. In it, Bourne attacked the idea of “the melting pot,” which, he said, reflected “Englis ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 455 Throughout the 1920s, Gold had been working on a fictionalized autobiography. It was published in 1 ...

456 Making It New: 1900–1945 Then, only a year later, trouble came from the other end of the political spectrum. As a Hollywood ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 457 James T. Farnell (1904–1979), which doggedly charts the representative life and death of a young ur ...

458 Making It New: 1900–1945 theme of miscegenation. “I am a moral writer,” Hellman once wrote; and, in her drama, she used the ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 459 sphere”; and what it reveals, fundamentally, is a lack of progress, thanks to the damaging norms of ...

460 Making It New: 1900–1945 realm of her nativity,” not only returns to the mother but is herself transformed into Demeter. Thi ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 461 to concentrate on female experience. But “the cause of women will be the cause of all toiling human ...

462 Making It New: 1900–1945 being, pulses through all her work. It is what makes it at once true to the realities of the lives ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 463 devote himself to his writing, since it was an immediate success. A vast, sprawling book, like all ...

464 Making It New: 1900–1945 thought that scores a corrupt present by measuring it against what has been irretrievably lost and ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 465 westward movement that helped shape the history of the American nation. What the Joad family find w ...

466 Making It New: 1900–1945 is what gives it also a prophetic fervor. Steinbeck was never to write anything nearly as powerful ...