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An overview since World War 
 
Therefore, attention was given to the inner life, that is, a subconscious activity 
dominated by sex. 
After World War I, realism prevailed in American fiction, often an ironic realism, 
based on bitterness and postwar disillusion. The war intensified the crisis of human 
spirit in the intellectual class. This crisis provoked evolution in science. Modern 
thought, conditioned by scientific evolution, rejected the religious mysteries and 
accepted the mysteries of science. Outstanding among the novelists of the time were 
Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 
During the 1930´s American novels were probably the most significant being written 
anywhere in the world. Apart from the terror and dismay with which virtually all 
writers viewed World War I, there was no general pattern. 
 On the whole, however, novelists were sympathetic in their representation of the 
middle and lower classes, and often eloquent in portraying the miseries experienced 
by sensitive souls born in handicapping environments. 
 
 
Bibliography: 
 
Badley et al. The American Tradition in Literature. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc, 
1967 
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/spanishamerican/context.html 
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/naal7/contents/e/welcome.asp