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Introduction to The 20th Century American Literature

Provider: Dr. Ron Tranquilla

 

Cartoons of the "Roaring Twenties"

WW I

 
Cartoons of the "Roaring Twenties"
 

What societal values do you see reflected in the cartoons?

How are these values depicted in the literature of the 'twenties?

Which are celebrated, which criticized? Do you find any ambivalences?

 

YOUNG BRIDE (closing the Book of Etiquette): Oh dear, I don't know what to do! Here I have the minister coming to dinner and I simply can't find out if I should serve cocktails before or after grace.

Ethel Plummer

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"What are your college colors?"

"Orange and gin."

Arthur Dove

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"Have a cigarette, Ethel. You're attracting an awful lot of attention by not smoking."

C. F. Peters

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"Helen, I declare, your dress scarcely covers your body.

"What's the matter with my body?"

Ethel Plummer

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"Where can I be vaccinated so that it will not show?"

"On the ear."

John Held

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THE NEGLECTED ONE'S MOTHER:
She's really a sweet little thing, even if she is shallow.

THE FAMILY FRIEND:
But just the type, my dear, that gets us men in beyond our depth.

Walter De Maris

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"What are you thinking of, granny?"

"I was remembering the costume that I used to go bathing in,
and I was wondering what your granddaughter would wear."

J. Conacher

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SHE: At this distance it's hard to tell the men from the women.

HE: Yes, at this distance it's not worth trying.

Ethel Plummer


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Galosh!

BEWILDERMENT OF OLD PARTIES AT RECENT
DEVELOPMENT IN YOUNG WOMEN'S FOOTGEAR

W. Morgan

Open, flapping galoshes, a 'twenties fad, is said to
have given the name to the Flappers.

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World War I: Pound, Dos Passos, cummings

Ypres, France, 1917. Painting by Gilbert Holiday

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Ypres, France, 1916 after the battle of Ypres

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British soldiers in trench

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Canadian Division, Passchendael, 1917

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Fallen soldier, Chateau Wood

"The blood ran into the ground" --Dos Passos

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"There died a myriad...

For two gross of broken statues,

For a few thousand battered books."

------ (Ezra Pound, "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley)

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