A Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900 - 1950

Notes on Contributors vii

Chronology xi

Acknowledgments xviii

Introduction 1

1 Turning the Century 17
Michael A. Elliott and Jennifer A. Hughes

2 Women and Modernity 37
Jennifer L. Fleissner

3 Queer Modernity and Lesbian Representation 57
Kathryn R. Kent

4 Markets and “Gatekeepers” 77
Loren Glass

5 Manhood, Modernity, and Crime Fiction 94
David Schmid

6 American Sentences: Terms, Topics, and Techniques in Stylistic Analysis 113
Paul Simpson and Donald E. Hardy

7 The Great Gatsby as Mobilization Fiction: Rethinking Modernist Prose 132
Keith Gandal

8 Modernism’s History of the Dead 158
Michael Szalay

9 The Radical 1930s 186
Alan M. Wald

10 Racial Uplift and the Politics of African American Fiction 205
Gene Andrew Jarrett

11 The Modernism of Southern Literature 228
Florence Dore

12 Cosmopolis 253
Mary Esteve

13 Other Modernisms 275
John Carlos Rowe

Index 295