The American Trilogy, 1900-1937: Norris, Dreiser, Dos Passos, and the History of Mammon
- ISBN-10
- 0933951647
- ISBN-13
- 9780933951648
- Category
- Literary Criticism / American / General
- Pages
- 172
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Locust Hill Press
- Author
- John Christian Waldmeir
Description
An analysis of the cultural context that loaned a religious, transhistorical, and unifying perspective to discourses on secular topics (notably corporate capitalism) by three American authors, with an emphasis on the trilogy as a narrative genre. The study began as a dissertation at the U. of Chicago Divinity School. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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