A Companion to the Modern American Novel, 1900 - 1950

* Reflects current investigations into the origins and character of modernism.

* 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.