Twentieth-Century America: The Intellectual and Cultural Context
- ISBN-10
- 1317870581
- ISBN-13
- 9781317870586
- Series
- Twentieth-Century America
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 466
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-07-22
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Douglas Tallack
Description
The multi-volume Longman literature in English series aims to provide students of literature with a critical introduction to the major genres in their historical and cultural context. This book looks at cinema, painting and architecture in 20th-century America, as well as the culture of politics.
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- 2014-07-22
- 466 pages
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- 2000-05-18
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