给文化的演变定一个日期,这总是有危险的。但是,现在还是有充分的理由认为,在1912年和第一次世界大战的开始阶段之间,那些绅士派的文化守护神控制美国文学的权威已经在很大的程度上结束了。在后来的二十年中,美国出版的许多名作破坏 It is always dangerous to set a date for cultural evolution. However, there is good reason to believe that the genocidal patriarchs’ authority over American literature has largely come to an end between 1912 and the start of World War I. In the two decades that followed, many of the famous American books were destroyed