Sanctuary | Social Concerns
Sanctuary achieved a kind of notorious popularity, largely because of its controversial treatment of sexual themes in handling the abduction and rape of Temple Drake. But the novel shows much more serious concerns in its response to the sense of emptiness that many artists felt in the spiritual life of the West after World War I, echoing the despair of such major works as F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925) and Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926). At the same time that it echoes a despairing world view, the novel also mocks the conventions and topics...
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