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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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, it reflects
current investigations into the origins and character of the
movement as a whole.
- Brings together 28 original essays from leading scholars
- 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