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Book SynopsisCovering key forms, media, locations, individuals, and communities, this book addresses both familiar topics and emergent scholarship. Seeing US modernism as fundamentally multiracial, both national and transnational, and steeped in the markets of new mass media, this will be the benchmark volume on US literary modernism for years to come.
Table of ContentsPart I. Methodologies: 1. The US and Geomodernism Yogita Goyal; 2. Evading Comstockery: The Provincetown Theater, the Harlem Renaissance, and US Queer Modernism Benjamin Kahan; 3. Our Americas: Locating Modernisms, Dislocating Regionalisms and the Place of Cultures Eric Aronoff; 4. Green Modernism Joshua Schuster; 5. Modernism and the Middlebrow Faye Hammill; 6. 'The Accent of the Future': Ethnic American Modernism Catherine Morley; Part II. Forms, Genre, and Media; 7. New Visual Media Julian Murphet; 8. Midwestern Modernism and the Radio: Eliot, Hughes, Niedecker Tom McEnaney; 9. Modernist Writing and Painting John Fagg; 10. Modern Folk, Modernist Documentary Sonnet Retman; 11. Skyscraper Organizations: Architecture and US Literary Modernism Adrienne Brown; 12. The Jazz Age Jessica Teague; 13. Modernism's Deep Roots: the fin-de-siecle and the Transformation of the American Novel Guy Reynolds; 14. Modernizing the American Short Story Kasia Boddy; 15. Modernist American Long Poems Michael Kindellan; 16. The Modernist Lyric and its Discontents Linda Kinnahan; 17. Anthologies Jeremy Braddock; 18. Fragile Realism: American Drama in the Interwar Period Katherine Biers; 19. Post-WWII Theater and Media: Citation and Improvisation Shonni Enelow; 20. The Limits of an American Modernist Avant-Garde Lisa Siraganian; 21. Magazines Andrew Thacker; 22. The Modernist Presses Lise Jaillant; 23. Literary Criticism Ichiro Takayoshi; 24. Libertad Bajo Palabra: Surrealism in the Americas Jonathan P. Eburne; Part III. Situating US Modernism: A. Situating in History; 25. War Jonathan Vincent; 26. Modernism, Personality, and the Racialized State Matthew Stratton; 27. Modernism of the Streets: How the Left Made a Culture from Below Bill V. Mullen; 28. Late Modernism Greg Barnhisel; B. Situating in Geography; 29. Transnational Circuits and Homemade Machines: US Modernism in Europe Eric B. White; 30. The American Metropolis Nathaniel Cadle; 31. Hemispheric Modernisms, Imperial Modernisms: Modernism in the Americas Rachel Galvin; 32. Southern Modernism Jon Smith; 33. Transpacific Modernism Josephine Park; C. Situating in Movements and Communities; 34. Indigenous Modernism Melanie Benson Taylor; 35. Sketching the Terrain of African American Modernism Cherene Sherrard-Johnson; 36. The New Woman and American Modernism Alex Goody; 37. Celebrity and American Modernism: Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway Karen Leick.
