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Literature: An American Voice Emerges

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From: American Decades
Date: 20010101
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LITERATURE: AN AMERICAN VOICE EMERGES

Midwestern Influences

As in art, American literature during the 1910s was dominated by writers trying to break free of older, usually European models, to find their own subject matter in their own country, and to create new forms and styles of writing. If the art, theater, and music worlds revolved around New York City, American literature during the 1910s came primarily from writers of the country's heartland: Willa Cather (Nebraska), Booth Tarkington and Theodore Dreiser (Indiana), Edgar Lee Masters and Carl Sandburg (Illinois), and Sherwood ...

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