![]() ![]() ![]() Much of the vocabulary of the modern age was coined in the 1920s. The limitations and possibilities of technology are recognizable in these books, as are the economic and social scenarios presented, by and large. ![]() What this means in the realm of literature is that the books written and published in the 1920s remain current in many senses. Technologies such as radio, telephones, automobiles, airplanes, and film were in place, and even fashions remain recognizable to the modern eye. There was a focus on urban living as people moved from more rural areas and mechanized industry supplanted agriculture as the economic focus. While most people can picture Flappers and gangsters, rum-runners and stock brokers, what many miss is that the 1920s were in many ways the first recognizably “modern” period in American history.Ĭoming on the heels of a world war that forever changed warfare itself and the world map, the 1920s were the first discrete decade to have all the basic, fundamental aspects of modern life. This is significant, because that decade, while superficially celebrated in pop culture and fashion, is largely misunderstood. In just a few years, the 1920s will be a hundred years in the past. ![]()
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