For my Honors project, I would like to create a literary atlas on New York City in the 1920s. In this literary atlas, I will explore new inventions created in this decade, new music that in turn influenced new dance and culture, along with fashion, manufacturing, and overall lifestyle. The 1920’s were known as the happy times, followed by the stock market crash in 1929 that ultimately lead to the Great Depression. However, I choose to steer clear of this topic, as I already know a lot about it and have no interest in learning more. Instead I want to focus on the 1920s, the liveliest time before the Great Depression, in the liveliest city in America at the time.
The main reason I chose this time era in this place is because it is often a time overlooked, since the Great Depression was immediately after. Not many people know of how happy everyone was up until the Great Depression, and what new styles of fashion, music, inventions and the like influenced early 20th century lifestyles. I’d like to explore these factors, and maybe explore why the Great Depression happened (i.e. how people took advantage of stocks in the 20’s – why did it crash? Etc.) What were things that they had in the 1920’s that are no longer in existence today… etc.
Novels
Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Old New York – Edith Wharton
Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
Bread Givers- Anzia Yezierska
Resources
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade20.html
Nation of Nations
http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/exhibition/exhibition_6_2.html
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