Matthews A Companion to the Modern American Novel 1900 - 1950

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-66163-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 616 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for thestudy of the modern American novel. Published at a time whenliterary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflectscurrent investigations into the origins and character of themovement as a whole.
* Brings together 28 original essays from leadingscholars
* Allows readers to orient individual works and authors in theirprincipal cultural and social contexts
* Contributes to efforts to recover minority voices, such asthose of African American novelists, and popular subgenres, such asdetective fiction
* Directs students to major relevant scholarship for furtherinquiry
* Suggests the many ways that "modern","American" and "fiction" carry new meaningsin the twenty-first century

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matthews, John T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors viii
List of Figures xiii
Preface xiv
Acknowledgments xxiii
1 An Economic History of the United States 1900-19501
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 Experience56
Jeanne Follansbee Quinn
5 Class and Sex in American Fiction: From Casual Laborers toAccidental 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 SocialCritique 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 Modernismand the Novel 240
Edward P. Comentale
14 Writing the Modern South 266
Susan V. Donaldson
15 What Was High About Modernism? The American Novel andModernity 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 Fictionand 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 Fiction454
Charles J. Rzepka
24 What Price Hollywood? Modern American Writers and the Movies466
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

Über Autor(innen)

John T. Matthews is Professor of English and American Studies at Boston University. His publications include William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009); "The Sound and the Fury": Faulkner and the Lost Cause (1990); The Play of Faulkner's Language (1982); and numerous articles and chapters on Faulkner, including recent essays in Look Away! The U.S. South and New World Studies (2004) and American Literary History (2004). He is currently working on a study of the problem of the South in the modern American imagination. Matthews was a founding coeditor of The Faulkner Journal and serves on editorial boards for the New Southern Studies Series, Arizona Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, and The Mississippi Quarterly.