American Culture in the 1910s

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Split by the Great War and cast into shadow by the powerful mythology of the 1920s, for many commentators the 1910s hardly qualifies as a decade at all. This thoughtfully conceived and elegantly written book revels in what Mark Whalan calls the "intriguing obstacles" to periodization. It charts the continuities and changes of Progressive culture before and during the rupture of 1917-1920, while arguing persuasively that the 1910s witnessed the development of cultural forms that have proved remarkably long-lasting.

EUP's highly useful Twentieth-Century American Culture series is completed by the simultaneous publication of this book and Colin Harrison's volume on the 1990s. Each volume provides a chronology paralleling historical events with cultural production in the areas of visual art, photography and design, film (and vaudeville), fiction and poetry, and performance and music, and devotes chapters to each area which set out general contexts and provide case studies...