Stoneley / Weinstein A Concise Companion to American Fiction 1900 - 1950

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69329-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture

An authoritative guide to American literature, thisCompanion examines the experimental forms, socio-culturalchanges, literary movements, and major authors of the early 20thcentury. This Companion provides authoritative andwide-ranging guidance on early twentieth-century American fiction.
* * Considers commonly studied authors such as Faulkner,Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, alongside key texts of the period byRichard Wright, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, and AnziaYezierska
* Examines how the works of these diverse writers have beeninterpreted in their own day and how current readings have expandedour understanding of their cultural and literary significance
* Covers a broad range of topics, including the First and SecondWorld Wars, literary language differences, author celebrity, theurban landscape, modernism, the Jazz Age, the Great Depression,regionalism, and African-American fiction
* Gives students the contextual information necessary forformulating their own critiques of classic American fiction

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stoneley, Peter

Weinstein, Cindy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Stoneley is Professor of English in the School ofEnglish and American Literature at the University of Reading. He isauthor of Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic (1992),Consumerism and American Girls' Literature,1860-1940 (2003), and A Queer History of theBallet (2006).
Cindy Weinstein is Professor of English at the CaliforniaInstitute of Technology. She is author of Family, Kinship, andSympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2004),The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature: Allegoryin Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (1995), and editor ofThe Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe (2004).