A History of American Literature

Making It New: 1900–1945 507 The Maltese Falcon (1930), Sam Spade. Raymond Chandler wrote of Hammett and his followers that they ...

508 Making It New: 1900–1945 the setting in an urban labyrinth (it was Chandler, after all, who coined the phrase “mean streets” ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 509 theaters, and precinct station backrooms, all inhabited by drifters, loners, the victims and the co ...

510 Making It New: 1900–1945 ever ventured that far. Clarence Shepard Day (1874–1935), for instance, produced a series of popula ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 511 violence, or stupidity. The sardonic surfaces of his fiction only partially conceal a deeply pessim ...

512 Making It New: 1900–1945 to take any prisoners. And she could be just as devastating in conversation as she was in print: on ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 513 is the world-weary plantation Hamlet, played here by Ashley Wilkes, the roguish, dangerous plantati ...

514 Making It New: 1900–1945 “pop-eyed with fear” over some scary matter, and the “laughter of negro voices” as the hands return ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 515 Odets, Cain and McCoy, Benchley and Parker were among those lured west to write film scripts. And, ...

516 Making It New: 1900–1945 All order is doomed” and everything is running down. What is different, now, is the absence of a sa ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 517 own bodies, say, or “machines for making jokes” – or a label – and one that, in the case of the pro ...

518 Making It New: 1900–1945 prompts them to violence of the kind that their own jaded appetites, fed to saturation by the popul ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 519 A History of American Literature, Second Edition. Richard Gray. © 2012 Richard G ...

520 The American Century: Literature since 1945 population, yet it consumed 40 percent of the world’s energy, 60 percent of its ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 521 the possible arrival of hostile forces, aliens who would rob Americans of their ...

522 The American Century: Literature since 1945 Eisenhower years was more than just a useful weapon in the hands of certain ambi ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 523 to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation ...

524 The American Century: Literature since 1945 later 1960s that the seeds of discontent and dissension sowed by this conspicuou ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 525 commitment to new forms of feminism. “We can no longer ignore that voice within ...

526 The American Century: Literature since 1945 demonstration in Washington, DC involving over a quarter of a million people, wh ...