American Culture in the 1920s (Twentieth-Century American Culture) by Professor Sue Currell

American Culture in the 1920s (Twentieth-Century American Culture)



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American Culture in the 1920s (Twentieth-Century American Culture) Professor Sue Currell
Language: English
Page: 224
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0748625224, 9780748625222
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Both thoughtful and useful, Susan Currell's American Culture in the 1920s combines summatory accounts of intellectual, political, cultural and aesthetic trends with illuminating case-studies that range from close readings of particular texts through genre surveys and exhibition reviews to coverage of key or typical careers. Currell's version of the decade turns on a record of pervasive tensions between tradition and innovation, and is particularly strong on the passage of intellectual trends into popular and political theories conditioning the daily cultural life of the decade. I can think of few other introductions that so aptly catch the degree to which modernity is necessarily unfinished, unfinishable and conflicted. -- Professor Richard Godden, University of California, Irvine This is a most reliable and carefully researched book. I shall certainly add it to the reading list for my own course on America in the 1920s; indeed, I think it belongs right at the top of the list. -- Faye Hammil, University of Strathclyde Journal of American Studies Both thoughtful and useful, Susan Currell's American Culture in the 1920s combines summatory accounts of intellectual, political, cultural and aesthetic trends with illuminating case-studies that range from close readings of particular texts through genre surveys and exhibition reviews to coverage of key or typical careers. Currell's version of the decade turns on a record of pervasive tensions between tradition and innovation, and is particularly strong on the passage of intellectual trends into popular and political theories conditioning the daily cultural life of the decade. I can think of few other introductions that so aptly catch the degree to which modernity is necessarily unfinished, unfinishable and conflicted. This is a most reliable and carefully researched book. I shall certainly add it to the reading list for my own course on America in the 1920s; indeed, I think it belongs right at the top of the list.

About the Author

Sue Currell is a senior lecturer in American studies at the University of Sussex. She is author of The March of Spare Time: The Problem and Promise of Leisure During the 1930s and editor of Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture.

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