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John Dos Passos's Transatlantic Chronicling is a wide-ranging and engaging set of essays that extends and enriches the scholarship on Dos Passos. Welcome attention is given to Dos Passos's travel writing, his work with theater, and the Iberian contexts so crucial for his artistic and political development. The collection also does justice to Dos Passos's skills as a capacious chronicler of his time with pieces on how a diverse range of culture informed his writing--from clothes to burial practices to the contemporary cinema. A collection that decisively captures the wide sphere of interest of one of the key writers of left global modernism in the 1920s and 1930s. --Mark Whalan, Robert and Eve Horn Professor of English, University of Oregon A trenchant and wide-ranging study of one of America's greatest authors. These essays trace the winding course of Dos Passos's writing, and provide timely reflections on the functions of art in interesting times. --Wesley Beal, author of Networks of Modernism

""John Dos Passos's Transatlantic Chronicling is a wide-ranging and engaging set of essays that extends and enriches the scholarship on Dos Passos. Welcome attention is given to Dos Passos's travel writing, his work with theater, and the Iberian contexts so crucial for his artistic and political development. The collection also does justice to Dos Passos's skills as a capacious chronicler of his time with pieces on how a diverse range of culture informed his writing--from clothes to burial practices to the contemporary cinema. A collection that decisively captures the wide sphere of interest of one of the key writers of left global modernism in the 1920s and 1930s.""--Mark Whalan, Robert D. and Eve E. Horn Professor of English, University of Oregon ""A trenchant and wide-ranging study of one of America's greatest authors. These essays trace the winding course of Dos Passos's writing and provide timely reflections on the functions of art in interesting times.""--Wesley Beal, author of Networks of Modernism ""An essential addition to Dos Passos studies, John Dos Passos's Transatlantic Chronicling expands one of the field's central debates--the impact of the writer's politics on his representations of history--into the 21st century with new critical perspectives. The multiplicity of voices and approaches in this volume illustrate the range of forms--innovative fiction, political and travel essays, experimental drama, memoir--in which he expressed the turbulent political, economic, and cultural transformations that propelled the US and the world into modernity."" --Lisa Nanney, author of John Dos Passos and Cinema and John Dos Passos Revisited, and co-editor of The Paintings and Drawings of John Dos Passos

John Dos Passos's Transatlantic Chronicling is a wide-ranging and engaging set of essays that extends and enriches the scholarship on Dos Passos. Welcome attention is given to Dos Passos's travel writing, his work with theater, and the Iberian contexts so crucial for his artistic and political development. The collection also does justice to Dos Passos's skills as a capacious chronicler of his time with pieces on how a diverse range of culture informed his writing--from clothes to burial practices to the contemporary cinema. A collection that decisively captures the wide sphere of interest of one of the key writers of left global modernism in the 1920s and 1930s. --Mark Whalan, Robert and Eve Horn Professor of English, University of Oregon A trenchant and wide-ranging study of one of America's greatest authors. These essays trace the winding course of Dos Passos's writing and provide timely reflections on the functions of art in interesting times. --Wesley Beal, author of Networks of Modernism An essential addition to Dos Passos studies, John Dos Passos's Transatlantic Chronicling expands one of the field's central debates--the impact of the writer's politics on his representations of history--into the 21st century with new critical perspectives. The multiplicity of voices and approaches in this volume illustrate the range of forms--innovative fiction, political and travel essays, experimental drama, memoir--in which he expressed the turbulent political, economic, and cultural transformations that propelled the U.S. and the world into modernity. --Lisa Nanney, author of John Dos Passos & Cinema and John Dos Passos Revisited and co-editor of The Paintings and Drawings of John Dos Passos

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Aaron Shaheen is the George C. Connor Professor of American Literature at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. His books include Androgynous Democracy: Modern American Literature and the Dual-Sexed Body Politic and Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture. Rosa Maria Bautista-Cordero is a professor of translation and interpretation in the Department of English Philology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She is the author of the most recent Spanish-language annotated translation of Manhattan Transfer.

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