American Modernism, 1914-1945 (Research Guide to American Literature)

American Modernism: 1914–1945 covers American literature during the time of war and Depression in the first half of the 20th century. This new research guide brings this important literary period to life, providing students with strategies for studying and writing.

Topics covered include:

• T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
• F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
• Robert Frost
• Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon
• The Harlem Renaissance
• Langston Hughes
• Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
• John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
• Writers on the boom and the crash
• and more.