Manhattan Transfer

by John Dos Passos, Donald Pizer

Overview

Since its 1925 publication, Manhattan Transfer has been widely recognized as a landmark in American modernism both for its jaundiced portrayal of the American Dream and for its experimentation with the novel form. Clear, factual annotations by the world's leading expert on Dos Passos's fi ction guides readers through the novel's dense representation of life in New York City during the turbulent early decades of the new century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781949979619
Publisher:	Clemson University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2020
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

John Dos Passos is one of the great innovators of twentieth-century world literature and one of the most influential.  His style is part of the realism of the Chicago School that starred in the so-called little renaissance in the 1920s.

 

Table of Contents

First Section
I. Ferryslip
II. Metropolis 
III. Dollars 
IV. Tracks
V. Steamroller

Second Section
I. Great Lady on a White Horse
II. Longlegged Jack of the Isthmus
III. Nine Days’ Wonder
IV. Fire Engine
V. Went to the Animals’ Fair
VI. Five Statutory Questions
VII. Rollercoaster 
VIII. One More River to Jordan

Third Section
I. Rejoicing City That Dwelt Carelessly
II. Nickelodeon 
III. Revolving Doors
IV. Skyscraper 
V. The Burthen of Nineveh