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An authoritative guide to American literature, this Companion examines the experimental forms, socio-cultural changes, literary movements, and major authors of the early 20th century. This Companion provides authoritative and wide-ranging guidance on early twentieth-century American fiction.

  • Considers commonly studied authors such as Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, alongside key texts of the period by Richard Wright, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, and Anzia Yezierska
  • Examines how the works of these diverse writers have been interpreted in their own day and how current readings have expanded our understanding of their cultural and literary significance
  • Covers a broad range of topics, including the First and Second World Wars, literary language differences, author celebrity, the urban landscape, modernism, the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, regionalism, and African-American fiction
  • Gives students the contextual

    Table of Contents

    Notes on Contributors vii

    Chronology xi

    Acknowledgments xviii

    Introduction 1

    1 Turning the Century 17
    Michael A. Elliott and Jennifer A. Hughes

    2 Women and Modernity 37
    Jennifer L. Fleissner

    3 Queer Modernity and Lesbian Representation 57
    Kathryn R. Kent

    4 Markets and “Gatekeepers” 77
    Loren Glass

    5 Manhood, Modernity, and Crime Fiction 94
    David Schmid

    6 American Sentences: Terms, Topics, and Techniques in Stylistic Analysis 113
    Paul Simpson and Donald E. Hardy

    7 The Great Gatsby as Mobilization Fiction: Rethinking Modernist Prose 132
    Keith Gandal

    8 Modernism’s History of the Dead 158
    Michael Szalay

    9 The Radical 1930s 186
    Alan M. Wald

    10 Racial Uplift and the Politics of African American Fiction 205
    Gene Andrew Jarrett

    11 The Modernism of Southern Literature 228
    Florence Dore

    12 Cosmopolis 253
    Mary Esteve

    13 Other Modernisms 275
    John Carlos Rowe

    Index 295

A Concise Companion to American Fiction 1900

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 27/12/2007
      ISBN13: 9781405133678, 978-1405133678
      ISBN10: 1405133678
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      An authoritative guide to American literature, this Companion examines the experimental forms, socio-cultural changes, literary movements, and major authors of the early 20th century. This Companion provides authoritative and wide-ranging guidance on early twentieth-century American fiction.

      • Considers commonly studied authors such as Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, alongside key texts of the period by Richard Wright, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, and Anzia Yezierska
      • Examines how the works of these diverse writers have been interpreted in their own day and how current readings have expanded our understanding of their cultural and literary significance
      • Covers a broad range of topics, including the First and Second World Wars, literary language differences, author celebrity, the urban landscape, modernism, the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, regionalism, and African-American fiction
      • Gives students the contextual

        Table of Contents

        Notes on Contributors vii

        Chronology xi

        Acknowledgments xviii

        Introduction 1

        1 Turning the Century 17
        Michael A. Elliott and Jennifer A. Hughes

        2 Women and Modernity 37
        Jennifer L. Fleissner

        3 Queer Modernity and Lesbian Representation 57
        Kathryn R. Kent

        4 Markets and “Gatekeepers” 77
        Loren Glass

        5 Manhood, Modernity, and Crime Fiction 94
        David Schmid

        6 American Sentences: Terms, Topics, and Techniques in Stylistic Analysis 113
        Paul Simpson and Donald E. Hardy

        7 The Great Gatsby as Mobilization Fiction: Rethinking Modernist Prose 132
        Keith Gandal

        8 Modernism’s History of the Dead 158
        Michael Szalay

        9 The Radical 1930s 186
        Alan M. Wald

        10 Racial Uplift and the Politics of African American Fiction 205
        Gene Andrew Jarrett

        11 The Modernism of Southern Literature 228
        Florence Dore

        12 Cosmopolis 253
        Mary Esteve

        13 Other Modernisms 275
        John Carlos Rowe

        Index 295

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