The first half of the 20th century was a turbulent and transformative period for American and British culture. Women and men began to define themselves in very different ways, and one of the tools ...

Students of twentieth-century literature are familiar with narratives that associate devastating wars with conceptual, societal, and aesthetic upheavals. What these accounts overlook, however, is a ...

We have grown used to a way of telling the history. The 1950s, that decade of rationing, austerity, of dank deference and drab conformity, was replaced by the explosive energies of the 1960s, ...

I don’t remember them reading books by Anzia Yezierska, Grace Paley or Cynthia Ozick, important writers often excluded in the ...

To cope, Dirda recommends literature: “There certainly will ... Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, is being published this week. It explores how the novel has mirrored ...

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The incidence of childhood type 1 diabetes increased worldwide in the closing decades of the 20th century ... A search through the early literature revealed a number of useful but neglected ...

Victor Brombert, the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance and Comparative Literatures, and an authority on French ...

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Sure, it’s a family story they can chuckle about NOW. But Lisa Highfill wasn’t laughing that December day almost 20 years ago ...

DeLong’s explicit embrace of ‘American exceptionalism’ as a defining feature of the Long Twentieth Century may explain the lack of substantive engagement with the greatest reduction in extreme poverty ...