This dissertation analyzes the relationship between social history and the geographic spread of modernism. Many critics have noted the irony that writers from t

Winner of the 2018 Eudora Welty Prize When the United States entered World War I, parts of the country had developed industries, urban cultures, and democratic

Winner of the 2018 Eudora Welty Prize When the United States entered World War I, parts of the country had developed industries, urban cultures, and democratic

In the years of and around the First World War, American poets, fiction writers, and dramatists came to the forefront of the international movement we call Mode

During the Cold War, national discourse strove for unity through patriotism and political moderation to face a common enemy. Some authors and intellectuals supp