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,

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Inhoudsopgave:
Notes on Contributors.

List of Figures.

Preface.

Acknowledgments

1. An Economic Hi.story of the United States 1900 1950: Eric Rauchway (University of California at Davis).

2. The Changing Status of Women 1900 1950: Nancy Woloch (Columbia University).

3. The Status of African Americans 1900 1950: Matthew Pratt Guterl (Indiana University).

4. Pragmatism, Power, and the Politics of Aesthetic Experience: Jeanne Follansbee Quinn (Harvard University).

5. Class and Sex in American Fiction: From Casual Laborers to Accidental Desires: Michael Trask (University of Kentucky).

6. Jazz: From the Gutter to the Mainstream: Jeremy Yudkin (Boston University).

7. French Visual Humanisms and the American Style: Justus Nieland (Michigan State University).

8. Early Literary Modernism: Andrew Lawson (Leeds Metropolitan University).

9. Naturalism: Turn of the Century Modernism: Donna Campbell (Washington State University).

10. Money and Things: Capitalist Realism, Anxiety, and Social Critique in Works by Hemingway, Wharton, and Fitzgerald: Richard Godden (University of California at Irvine).

11. Chronic Modernism: Leigh Anne Duck (University of Memphis).

12. New Regionalisms: Literature and Uneven Development: Hsuan L. Hsu (University of California at Davis).

13. The Possibilities of Hard Won Land : Midwestern Modernism and the Novel: Edward P. Comentale (Indiana University).

14. Writing the Modern South: Susan V. Donaldson (William and Mary College).

15. What Was High About Modernism? The American Novel and Modernity: John T. Matthews (Boston University).

16. African American Modernisms: Michelle Stephens (Colgate College).

17. Ethnic Modernism: Rita Keresztesi (University of Oklahoma).

18. The Proletarian Novel: Barbara Foley (Rutgers University Newark).

19. Revolutionary Sentiments: Modern American Domestic Fiction and the Rise of the Welfare State: Susan Edmunds (Syracuse University).

20. Lesbian Fiction 1900 1950: Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania).

21. The Gay Novel in the United States 1900 1950: Christopher Looby (University of California at Los Angeles).

22. The Popular Western: William R. Handley (University of Southern California).

23. Twentieth Century American Crime and Detective Fiction: Charles J. Rzepka (Boston University).

24. What Price Hollywood? Modern American Writers and the Movies: Mark Eaton (Azusa Pacific University).

25. The Belated Tradition of Asian American Modernism: Delia Konzett (University of New Hampshire).

26. Modernism and Protopostmodernism: Patrick O Donnell (Michigan State University).

27. The Modern Novel in a New World Context: George B. Handley (Brigham Young University).

28. Reheated Figures: Five Ways of Looking at Leftovers: Jani Scandura (University of Minnesota).

Index.

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