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Title: F. Scott Fitzgerald


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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Americas Coming of Age
  • Mechanization reduced demand for farm jobs
  • Industrialization led to urbanization
  • Business flourished (Big Boom)
  • Middle class increased
  • Automobile transformed society

3
An era of economic gain
  • Between 1922 and 1929 dividends from stocks rose
    108
  • Corporate profits increased 76
  • Wages grew by 33
  • Productivity increased, production costs
    decreased
  • Result was rampant materialism
  • People spent money on consumer
  • goods, recreation and travel,
  • professional sports

4
The Roaring 20s
  • entertainment movies, dance, touring, radio
  • Prohibition speakeasies, bootlegged liquor
  • Women liberated bobbed hair, short flapper
    dresses, right to vote (1920)
  • Jazz Age

5
Effects of WWI
  • 1914-1945 (including aftermath of WWI)
  • Rural Americans (especially soldiers) experienced
    urban and European life
  • Optimism changed to disillusionment after war
  • Civilization was a vast edifice of sham, and the
    war, instead of its crumbling, was its fullest
    and most ultimate expression. (John Dos Passos)
  • Bohemians and Expatriates
  • Chicago, New York (Greenwich Village), and Paris
    (West Bank)

6
The Disillusionment of the Lost Generation
  • They saw the breakdown of traditional values and
    emergence of a godless world view
  • Freud, Darwin, Marx
  • Marked by rebellion and anger of younger
    generation regarding war
  • Fostered loss of familiar family life,
    community, religion, patriotism
  • Western civilization symbolized as bleak desert
    in desperate need of rain (spiritual renewal)
  • This is the rise of Modernism

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What is Modernism?
  • A disillusionment with old a search for the new.
  • Modernism encompasses the works of thinkers who
    rebelled against nineteenth century society,
    believing the "traditional" forms of art,
    architecture, literature, religious faith, social
    organization, and daily life were becoming
    outdated.
  • Modernists directly confronted the new economic,
    social and political conditions of an emerging
    fully industrialized world.

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Modernist Literature
  • Expatriates in
  • London
  • Ezra Pound
  • T. S. Eliot The Waste Land
  • Paris
  • Gertrude Stein Known mainly because of her
    influence on other expatriates
  • Said to Hemingway All of you young people who
    served in the war, you are the lost generation.
  • Ernest Hemingway Believer in cult of
    experience
  • Style clean, simple, devoid of unnecessary words
  • (short sentences)
  • The Sun Also Rises
  • A Farewell to Arms
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls
  • The Old Man and the Sea
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

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Modernism in the Fine Art World
  • Post-impressionists
  • Expressionists
  • Primitives
  • Cubists
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