World War I and Southern Modernism

by David A. Davis

Book Overview

Winner of the 2018 Eudora Welty Prize

When the United States entered World War I, parts of the country had developed industries, urban cultures, and democratic political systems, but the South lagged behind, remaining an impoverished, agriculture region. Despite New South boosterism, the culture of the early twentieth-century South was comparatively artistically arid. Yet, southern writers dominated the literary marketplace by the 1920s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496823311
• ISBN13: 9781496823311
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"