Writing the lost generation : expatriate autobiography and American modernism /

In Writing the Lost Generation, Craig Monk unlocks a series of neglected texts while reinvigorating our reading of more familiar ones. Well-known autobiographies by Malcolm Cowley, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein are joined here by works from a variety of lesser-known, but still important, expa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Monk, Craig, 1969- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=236420
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The lost generation and the critical function of autobiography
  • Beyond the sermonic tradition
  • Self-aggrandizement and expatriate reputation
  • Searching for a representative expatriate
  • Place as a strategy of attachment
  • Patterns of women's stories.