LibGuides: Literature in English: 20th Century

Resources

First World War This link opens in a new window
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Gilded Age and Progressive Era This link opens in a new window
Explore America’s transformative age of industrialization, expanding wealth, inequality and social change. Personal collections, business records and rich visual content offer fresh perspectives on this influential period
Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism This link opens in a new window
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Twentieth Century Advice Literature This link opens in a new window
Search for popular culture primary sources related to 20th century American attitudes towards race, sex, gender roles, family, and religion
Twentieth Century North American Drama This link opens in a new window
Search the full text of 2,000 plays written from the late 1800s to the present by more than 300 playwrights from North America