Thomas Wolfe and the Face of the Great War

The Enormous Room is regularly on lists of the works published in 1922 that made that year the annus mirabilis of twentiethcentury literature in English. Soldiers' Pay is a somber novel depicting the return of a wounded aviator to his Georgia home. Praise for "The Challenge" had been...

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Published inThe Thomas Wolfe review Vol. 42-43; no. 1/2; pp. 20 - 31
Main Author Flora, Joseph M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bloomington Thomas Wolfe Society 01.01.2018
Thomas Wolfe Review
Subjects
American literature
Armed forces
Authors
College campuses
Criticism and interpretation
Fitzgerald, F Scott (1896-1940)
Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)
Literature
Military personnel
Novels
War
Wolfe, Thomas
Wolfe, Thomas C (1900-1938)
World War I
Writers
United States
England
Canada
United Kingdom > UK
France
United States > US
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Summary:The Enormous Room is regularly on lists of the works published in 1922 that made that year the annus mirabilis of twentiethcentury literature in English. Soldiers' Pay is a somber novel depicting the return of a wounded aviator to his Georgia home. Praise for "The Challenge" had been so great that it was reprinted in The Asheville Citizen, The Winston-Salem Journal, and a Florida newspaper (Donald 43). Counted among the important works in the genre of the American college novel, Look Homeward, Angel memorably creates the impact of the Great War on a state university campus.6 We sense the energy that arrived as the United States entered the fray; we observe young men eager for the adventure of the war but innocent of its politics, innocent of the mechanism of war in an industrial age.
ISSN:0276-5683
2169-1452