The Dream of the Golden Mountains (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Malcolm Cowley
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1929 to 1938
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Malcolm Cowley, Peggy Baird Johns Cowley, Muriel Maurer Cowley, Robert Cantwell, Hart Crane, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Waldo Frank, Clifford Odets, Edmund Wilson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: History, United States or Americans, Current events, Communism or communists, Politics, Depression, economic, Dreams, 1930’s, Idealism, Government
Form and Content
When Malcolm Cowley’s study of expatriate American writers of the 1920’s, Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920’s, was published in 1934, it was attacked by established reviewers not only because of its contention that the so-called lost generation was worthy of serious critical attention but also because Cowley at that time was identified with the American Communist movement, although he never actually joined the Communist Party. Cowley sees 1930—the year that concludes Exile’s Return—as “a watershed between two ages,”...
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