On Native Grounds : An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature
by Kazin, AlfredEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-04-01
Publisher(s): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Summary
A classic interpretation of literature from America's golden age-including the work of Howells, Wharton, Lewis, Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner. New Preface by the Author; Index.
Author Biography
Alfred Kazin has lectured and taught at many prestigious universities in both the U.S. and Europe. His other books include A Walker in the City, The Inmost Leaf, and Starting Out in the Thirties.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition | p. xi |
| Preface to the Fortieth Anniversary Edition | p. xvii |
| Preface | p. xxi |
| The Search for Reality (1890-1917) | |
| The Opening Struggle for Realism | p. 3 |
| American Fin de Siecle | p. 51 |
| Two Educations: Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser | p. 73 |
| Progressivism: The Superman and the Muckrake | p. 91 |
| Progressivism: Some Insurgent Scholars | p. 127 |
| The Joyous Season | p. 165 |
| The Great Liberation (1918-1929) | |
| The Postwar Scene | p. 189 |
| The New Realism: Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis | p. 205 |
| The Exquisites | p. 227 |
| Elegy and Satire: Willa Cather and Ellen Glasgow | p. 247 |
| Liberals and New Humanists | p. 265 |
| Into the Thirties: All the Lost Generations | p. 312 |
| The Literature of Crises (1930-1940) | |
| The Revival of Naturalism | p. 363 |
| Criticism at the Poles | p. 400 |
| The Rhetoric and the Agony | p. 453 |
| Americal Americal | p. 485 |
| Index | p. 519 |
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