Twentieth-Century Attitudes: Literary Powers in Uncertain Times

New York-based critic Allen examines 20th-century writers, most British or American, who embody the values and attitudes of their time, and the success or failure of their attempts to transcend those values and attitudes. It was a colorful and grotesque century, she concludes. Some of the essays have been published previously. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR