A Companion to the Modern American Novel, 1900 - 1950ISBN: 978-0-631-20687-3
Hardcover
616 pages
April 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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Notes on Contributors viii
List of Figures xiii
Preface xiv
Acknowledgments xxiii
1 An Economic History of the United States 1900–1950
1
Eric Rauchway
2 The Changing Status of Women 1900–1950 13
Nancy Woloch
3 The Status of African Americans 1900–1950 31
Matthew Pratt Guterl
4 Pragmatism, Power, and the Politics of Aesthetic Experience
56
Jeanne Follansbee Quinn
5 Class and Sex in American Fiction: From Casual Laborers to
Accidental Desires 73
Michael Trask
6 Jazz: From the Gutter to the Mainstream 91
Jeremy Yudkin
7 French Visual Humanisms and the American Style 116
Justus Nieland
8 Early Literary Modernism 141
Andrew Lawson
9 Naturalism: Turn-of-the-Century Modernism 160
Donna Campbell
10 Money and Things: Capitalist Realism, Anxiety, and Social
Critique in Works by Hemingway, Wharton, and Fitzgerald 181
Richard Godden
11 Chronic Modernism 202
Leigh Anne Duck
12 New Regionalisms: Literature and Uneven Development 218
Hsuan L. Hsu
13 "The Possibilities of Hard-Won Land": Midwestern Modernism
and the Novel 240
Edward P. Comentale
14 Writing the Modern South 266
Susan V. Donaldson
15 What Was High About Modernism? The American Novel and
Modernity 282
John T. Matthews
16 African-American Modernisms 306
Michelle Stephens
17 Ethnic Modernism 324
Rita Keresztesi
18 The Proletarian Novel 353
Barbara Foley
19 Revolutionary Sentiments: Modern American Domestic Fiction
and the Rise of the Welfare State 367
Susan Edmunds
20 Lesbian Fiction 1900–1950 392
Heather Love
21 The Gay Novel in the United States 1900–1950 414
Christopher Looby
22 The Popular Western 437
William R. Handley
23 Twentieth-Century American Crime and Detective Fiction
454
Charles J. Rzepka
24 What Price Hollywood? Modern American Writers and the Movies
466
Mark Eaton
25 The Belated Tradition of Asian-American Modernism 496
Delia Konzett
26 Modernism and Protopostmodernism 518
Patrick O'Donnell
27 The Modern Novel in a New World Context 535
George B. Handley
28 Reheated Figures: Five Ways of Looking at Leftovers 554
Jani Scandura
Index 579