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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"1920s America."”.
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The “Fatty” Arbuckle Scandal, Will Hays, and Negotiated Morality in 1920s America
… moral values taking place throughout American society in the aftermath of World War I. The scandal created a common objective for an anti-film coalition representing diverse social and religious groups, all dedicated to bringing about change in the motion picture industry through …
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"To go on Doing Babbitts": Recontextualizing Twilight Sleep as Lewisian Satire
… and wrote the novel to the tastes of the American reading public solely for money. This project attempts to dismantle both critiques by arguing for a recontextualization of Twilight Sleep in light of Sinclair Lewis' 1922 novel, Babbitt. Through an examination of the novels' respective …
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Fitzgerald, Lewis, Wharton, Anderson, and individual-community conflict in the 1920 American novel.
1920 saw an eruption of significant American novels portraying conflicts between individuals and community norms. These tensions between individuals and their families, churches, social classes, and towns, for example, conveyed the Progressive-era antagonisms toward civil society. In their …