Prejudices (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: H. L. Mencken
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Authors or writers, Literature, 1920’s, Puritans or Puritanism
Critical Evaluation:
During the fantastic decade of the 1920’s, few literary events were so eagerly awaited in the United States as the appearance of a new volume of H. L. Mencken’s Prejudices. A wide range of people enjoyed the spectacle of the Sage of Baltimore, as he was called, pulling yet another popular idol down from its pedestal. Mencken’s iconoclasm was accomplished with so much gusto and with such vigorous and picturesque language as to enchant a whole generation grown weary of the solemnity of much American writing. Indeed, the decade badly needed an...
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