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This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole.

  • Brings together 28 original essays from leading scholars
  • Allows readers to orient individual works and authors in their principal cultural and social contexts
  • Contributes to efforts to recover minority voices, such as those of African American novelists, and popular subgenres, such as detective fiction
  • Directs students to major relevant scholarship for further inquiry
  • Suggests the many ways that “modern”, “American” and “fiction” carry new meanings in the twenty-first century

A Companion to the Modern American Novel, 1900 - 1950

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 17/05/2013
    ISBN13: 9781118492086, 978-1118492086
    ISBN10: 1118492080

    Number of Pages: 616

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

    Description

    This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole.

    • Brings together 28 original essays from leading scholars
    • Allows readers to orient individual works and authors in their principal cultural and social contexts
    • Contributes to efforts to recover minority voices, such as those of African American novelists, and popular subgenres, such as detective fiction
    • Directs students to major relevant scholarship for further inquiry
    • Suggests the many ways that “modern”, “American” and “fiction” carry new meanings in the twenty-first century

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