The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: America, Modernism, and All that Jazz 1 PART I: INVENTING THE MODERN 15 1. Generational Rhetoric and American Avant-Gardism 17 2. Renaissance Rhetoric and American Cultural Nationalism 57 PART II: LIVING THE MODERN 93 3. American Modernism Is Born: The Rise of the Bohemian Artist Narrative 95 4. The Modernist Generation: Growing Up in the American Race 139 Epilogue: Good-bye, Jazz Age 177 Notes 183 Works Cited 203 Index 221 ...