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Terrible Honesty by Ann Douglas (1996, Paperback, Reprint)

Author: Ann Douglas
Publisher: Noonday Pr
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0374524629
ISBN-13: 9780374524623
Product ID: EPID152603
Description: New York City in the 1920s, the bawdy, honky-tonk city of the Jazz Age, lacked the self-consciousness of the late 20th century. The author asserts that New York matured intellectually during this time and developed both a rich literary t...
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New York City in the 1920s, the bawdy, honky-tonk city of the Jazz Age, lacked the self-consciousness of the late 20th century. The author asserts that New York matured intellectually during this time and developed both a rich literary tradition as well as a lively African-American culture. She explores Manhattan thoroughly, using for her map the authorial personas of Hemingway, Faulkner, Freud, William James, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes and others.

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Publication Date:1996-01-01
Edition Description:Reprint

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Height:9.3 in
Width:6.0 in
Thickness:1.8 in
Weight:30.4 oz

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"'Terrible Honesty' is, at its most significant level, a densely packed psychological study of the United States--not simply in the 20's but also before and after that decade; hence her stress on the existence of such a thing as a national psyche. As the finest works of history often do, this book fairly resonates with provocative implications for our own time."
New York Times Book Review - Arnold Rampersad

"Douglas' insistence on writing a book of cultural theory--which she undoubtedly has done, and superlatively--based on actual culture is the kind of stance in favor of facts sorely lacking in literary studies today. 'Terrible Honesty' is the best thing to happen to modernism since the death of Ezra Pound, and the kind of book which so profoundly redefines its subject that serious thinking about the 1920s seems hardly worthwhile without it."
San Francisco Review of Books - Lisa Levy

"Intensely analytical and, at the same time, readably anecdotal cultural history of Manhattan in the 1920's."
New York Times - Richard Bernstein

"A truly stunning and handsome book by the author of 'The Feminization of American Culture', who argues that New York became a 'mongrel' city in the twenties in the sense that it was the heyday of the Black Renaissance, and a time in which the white elite made nightly trips to Harlem nightclubs. While conservative race ideologues predicted the imminent era of miscegenation, more carefree whites idealized and revered black culture. Most important and interesting to me is this work's emphasis on social history, performance and music as part of the background to the Harlem Renaissance, usually portrayed by academics as an entirely high cultural affair. Of course, this is where you find the women."
Women's Review of Books - Michele Wallace

"'Terrible Honesty' is interesting insofar as it treats a decade that marked a tremendous and enduring shift in American culture."
Boston Book Review - Adam Kirsch

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