| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 226 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. The Origins and Evolution of the Flapper; Flappers Before Fitzgerald; Zelda Fitzgerald's Existential Quest; Into the Past; II. Urban Geography, Artistic Experimentation and Literary Form; Fannie Hurst's Jazz Age Experimentation in Lummox; Howells, Dos Passos and the Evolution of Urban Mapping; "Traffic of Music on Spring Street"; Urban Ethnography and Migration in the Work of Langston Hughes; III. The Jazz Age in Our Time; Re-Imagining the Jazz Age; The American Dream in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby |
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Woody Allen's Dreamwork in Midnight in ParisContributors; Index |
| Summary |
From Britain's Downton Abbey and Dancing on the Edge to Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris and Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, the Jazz Age's presence in recent popular culture has been striking and pervasive. This volume not only deepens the reader's knowledge of this iconic period, but also provides a better understanding of its persistent presence "in our time." Situating well-known Jazz Age writers such as Langston Hughes in new contexts while revealing the contributions of lesser-known figures such as Fannie Hurst, Looking Back at the Jazz Age brings together an international and interdisci |
| Notes |
Papers based on a panel organized for the 2013 Northeast Modern Language Association Conference |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 9, 2017) |
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Nineteen twenties -- Congresses
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Jazz -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Literature & literary studies.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Nineteen twenties
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Manners and customs
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Jazz -- Social aspects
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American literature
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945 -- Congresses
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Von Rosk, Nancy, editor
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| ISBN |
9781443813334 |
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1443813338 |
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