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- catalog abstract "Babbitt, the tragicomic novel of revolt against smug, middle-class materialism, which earned Sinclair Lewis the 1930 Nobel Prize for literature, is a unique increment in the elevation of American literature to world status. Glen A. Love's unified, in-depth study of Babbitt sets American literary realism in the historical and cultural context of the 1920s - post-World War I liberalism, the Jazz Age, speakeasies, Red scares, the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the Scopes Monkey Trial, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, and the collapse of Puritanism - and carries its relevance to the present. A clear, readable discussion of satire, romance, and cultural symbolism, the book moves in concentric circles from the work to its critical reception and outward to its significance as a mocking, yet heroic authentication of Lewis's fanatic American-ness, which is connected to pioneer and frontier mores. More thorough and wide-ranging than former studies of the novel, Love's interpretation treats Babbitt as a work of realism and satire disguising an urgent, meaningful affirmation of - and appeal to - a nation replete with myriad possibilities. The scope of this multifaceted critique renders it invaluable to students and teachers of the American novel and realism as well as to general readers, critics, and researchers. This concise volume includes chronology, historical context, analysis, plus notes, a selected bibliography, and index.".
- catalog contributor b4251520.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "Babbitt, the tragicomic novel of revolt against smug, middle-class materialism, which earned Sinclair Lewis the 1930 Nobel Prize for literature, is a unique increment in the elevation of American literature to world status. Glen A. Love's unified, in-depth study of Babbitt sets American literary realism in the historical and cultural context of the 1920s - post-World War I liberalism, the Jazz Age, speakeasies, Red scares, the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the Scopes Monkey Trial, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, and the collapse of Puritanism - and carries its relevance to the present. A clear, readable discussion of satire, romance, and cultural symbolism, the book moves in concentric circles from the work to its critical reception and outward to its significance as a mocking, yet heroic authentication of Lewis's fanatic American-ness, which is connected to pioneer and frontier mores.".
- catalog description "Chronology: Sinclair Lewis's Life and Works -- Literary and Historical Context. 1. Babbitt and the Twenties. 2. Capturing the Archetype. 3. Babbitt and the Critics -- A Reading. 4. Babbitt and Realism. 5. Satire and Style in Babbitt. 6. Impossible Dreams: Babbitt and Romance. 7. Courting the Technological Sublime: Babbitt's Dance. 8. Lewis and Babbitt -- Two American Lives.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "More thorough and wide-ranging than former studies of the novel, Love's interpretation treats Babbitt as a work of realism and satire disguising an urgent, meaningful affirmation of - and appeal to - a nation replete with myriad possibilities. The scope of this multifaceted critique renders it invaluable to students and teachers of the American novel and realism as well as to general readers, critics, and researchers. This concise volume includes chronology, historical context, analysis, plus notes, a selected bibliography, and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 105 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Babbitt.".
- catalog identifier "0805785620 (pb : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0805794409 (hc : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Babbitt.".
- catalog isPartOf "Twayne's masterwork studies ; no. 105".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International,".
- catalog relation "Babbitt.".
- catalog subject "813/.52 20".
- catalog subject "Businessmen in literature.".
- catalog subject "Conformity in literature.".
- catalog subject "Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951. Babbitt.".
- catalog subject "Men in literature.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, American, in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS3523.E94 B297 1993".
- catalog subject "Satire, American History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Chronology: Sinclair Lewis's Life and Works -- Literary and Historical Context. 1. Babbitt and the Twenties. 2. Capturing the Archetype. 3. Babbitt and the Critics -- A Reading. 4. Babbitt and Realism. 5. Satire and Style in Babbitt. 6. Impossible Dreams: Babbitt and Romance. 7. Courting the Technological Sublime: Babbitt's Dance. 8. Lewis and Babbitt -- Two American Lives.".
- catalog title "Babbitt : an American life / Glen A. Love.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".