This wide-ranging and engaging collection of essays explores the work of John Dos Passos during a time that challenged writers to find new ways to understand and render the unfolding of history. Taking their foci from a variety of disciplines, the contributors extend the scholarship on Dos Passos beyond his best-known USA trilogy.
"This edited collection explores the wartime writings of John Dos Passos. Dos Passos's writings, set against a backdrop of rapidly evolving technology, growing religious skepticism, and political turmoil in the wake of World War I, focus widely on the costs of modern warfare. Contributors in this collection, including both scholars from North America and Dos Passos's native Spain, unpack Dos Passos's novels, essays, and stage plays written during the interwar years between the world wars"--
