A Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900 - 1950ISBN: 978-1-4051-3367-8
Hardcover
328 pages
February 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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An authoritative guide to American literature, this
Companion examines the experimental forms, socio-cultural
changes, literary movements, and major authors of the early 20th
century. This Companion provides authoritative and
wide-ranging guidance on early twentieth-century American fiction.
- Considers commonly studied authors such as Faulkner,
Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, alongside key texts of the period by
Richard Wright, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, and Anzia
Yezierska
- Examines how the works of these diverse writers have been
interpreted in their own day and how current readings have expanded
our understanding of their cultural and literary significance
- Covers a broad range of topics, including the First and Second
World Wars, literary language differences, author celebrity, the
urban landscape, modernism, the Jazz Age, the Great Depression,
regionalism, and African-American fiction
- Gives students the contextual information necessary for formulating their own critiques of classic American fiction