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Looking back at the Jazz Age : new essays on the literature and legacy of an iconic decade /

From Britain's Downton Abbey and Dancing on the Edge to Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris and Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, the Jazz Age's presence in recent popular culture has been striking and pervasive. This volume not only deepens the reader's knowledge of this iconic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Von Rosk, Nancy (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. The Origins and Evolution of the Flapper; Flappers Before Fitzgerald; Zelda Fitzgerald's Existential Quest; Into the Past; II. Urban Geography, Artistic Experimentation and Literary Form; Fannie Hurst's Jazz Age Experimentation in Lummox; Howells, Dos Passos and the Evolution of Urban Mapping; "Traffic of Music on Spring Street"; Urban Ethnography and Migration in the Work of Langston Hughes; III. The Jazz Age in Our Time; Re-Imagining the Jazz Age; The American Dream in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby
  • Woody Allen's Dreamwork in Midnight in ParisContributors; Index