Gender Relations in the Select Novels of Nathanael West John Updike and John Hawkes

Abstract

In the history of every nation, certain periods are markedly peculiar, and the twentieth newlinecentury was one such period in the history of the United States of America. The most newlinesignificant change to have occurred by 1900 was the Industrial Revolution. Though it started newlinein the 1820s and picked up momentum after the Civil War, it was only in the twentieth newlinecentury that it s social and technological effects could be properly observed on the American newlinesociety. Inventions and technological advances of the previous century such as steel railroad newlinetracks, bridges, skyscrapers, telegraph, typewriter, transatlantic cable, automobiles, etc. newline