Beschreibung:
This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for thestudy of the modern American novel. Published at a time whenliterary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflectscurrent investigations into the origins and character of themovement as a whole.* Brings together 28 original essays from leadingscholars* Allows readers to orient individual works and authors in theirprincipal cultural and social contexts* Contributes to efforts to recover minority voices, such asthose of African American novelists, and popular subgenres, such asdetective fiction* Directs students to major relevant scholarship for furtherinquiry* Suggests the many ways that "modern","American" and "fiction" carry new meaningsin the twenty-first century
Notes on Contributors viiiList of Figures xiiiPreface xivAcknowledgments xxiii1 An Economic History of the United States 1900-19501Eric Rauchway2 The Changing Status of Women 1900-1950 13Nancy Woloch3 The Status of African Americans 1900-1950 31Matthew Pratt Guterl4 Pragmatism, Power, and the Politics of Aesthetic Experience56Jeanne Follansbee Quinn5 Class and Sex in American Fiction: From Casual Laborers toAccidental Desires 73Michael Trask6 Jazz: From the Gutter to the Mainstream 91Jeremy Yudkin7 French Visual Humanisms and the American Style 116Justus Nieland8 Early Literary Modernism 141Andrew Lawson9 Naturalism: Turn-of-the-Century Modernism 160Donna Campbell10 Money and Things: Capitalist Realism, Anxiety, and SocialCritique in Works by Hemingway, Wharton, and Fitzgerald 181Richard Godden11 Chronic Modernism 202Leigh Anne Duck12 New Regionalisms: Literature and Uneven Development 218Hsuan L. Hsu13 "The Possibilities of Hard-Won Land": Midwestern Modernismand the Novel 240Edward P. Comentale14 Writing the Modern South 266Susan V. Donaldson15 What Was High About Modernism? The American Novel andModernity 282John T. Matthews16 African-American Modernisms 306Michelle Stephens17 Ethnic Modernism 324Rita Keresztesi18 The Proletarian Novel 353Barbara Foley19 Revolutionary Sentiments: Modern American Domestic Fictionand the Rise of the Welfare State 367Susan Edmunds20 Lesbian Fiction 1900-1950 392Heather Love21 The Gay Novel in the United States 1900-1950 414Christopher Looby22 The Popular Western 437William R. Handley23 Twentieth-Century American Crime and Detective Fiction454Charles J. Rzepka24 What Price Hollywood? Modern American Writers and the Movies466Mark Eaton25 The Belated Tradition of Asian-American Modernism 496Delia Konzett26 Modernism and Protopostmodernism 518Patrick O'Donnell27 The Modern Novel in a New World Context 535George B. Handley28 Reheated Figures: Five Ways of Looking at Leftovers 554Jani ScanduraIndex 579