A Companion to the Modern American Novel, 1900 - 1950
Ed. by John T. Matthews
A Companion to the Modern American Novel, 1900 - 1950
Ed. by John T. Matthews
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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…mehr
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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
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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
Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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- Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
- Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
- Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A631206870
- 1. Auflage
- Seitenzahl: 616
- Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2009
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 256mm x 184mm x 45mm
- Gewicht: 1230g
- ISBN-13: 9780631206873
- ISBN-10: 0631206876
- Artikelnr.: 25656464
- Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
- Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
- Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A631206870
- 1. Auflage
- Seitenzahl: 616
- Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2009
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 256mm x 184mm x 45mm
- Gewicht: 1230g
- ISBN-13: 9780631206873
- ISBN-10: 0631206876
- Artikelnr.: 25656464
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.
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. An Economic Hi.story of the United States 1900-1950: Eric Rauchway (University of California at Davis)
2. The Changing Status of Women 1900-1950: Nancy Woloch (Columbia University)
3. The Status of African Americans 1900-1950: Matthew Pratt Guterl (Indiana University)
4. Pragmatism, Power, and the Politics of Aesthetic Experience: Jeanne Follansbee Quinn (Harvard University)
5. Class and Sex in American Fiction: From Casual Laborers to Accidental Desires: Michael Trask (University of Kentucky)
6. Jazz: From the Gutter to the Mainstream: Jeremy Yudkin (Boston University)
7. French Visual Humanisms and the American Style: Justus Nieland (Michigan State University)
8. Early Literary Modernism: Andrew Lawson (Leeds Metropolitan University)
9. Naturalism: Turn-of-the-Century Modernism: Donna Campbell (Washington State University)
10. Money and Things: Capitalist Realism, Anxiety, and Social Critique in Works by Hemingway, Wharton, and Fitzgerald: Richard Godden (University of California at Irvine)
11. Chronic Modernism: Leigh Anne Duck (University of Memphis)
12. New Regionalisms: Literature and Uneven Development: Hsuan L. Hsu (University of California at Davis)
13. "The Possibilities of Hard-Won Land": Midwestern Modernism and the Novel: Edward P. Comentale (Indiana University)
14. Writing the Modern South: Susan V. Donaldson (William and Mary College)
15. What Was High About Modernism? The American Novel and Modernity: John T. Matthews (Boston University)
16. African-American Modernisms: Michelle Stephens (Colgate College)
17. Ethnic Modernism: Rita Keresztesi (University of Oklahoma)
18. The Proletarian Novel: Barbara Foley (Rutgers University-Newark)
19. Revolutionary Sentiments: Modern American Domestic Fiction and the Rise of the Welfare State: Susan Edmunds (Syracuse University)
20. Lesbian Fiction 1900-1950: Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania)
21. The Gay Novel in the United States 1900-1950: Christopher Looby (University of California at Los Angeles)
22. The Popular Western: William R. Handley (University of Southern California)
23. Twentieth-Century American Crime and Detective Fiction: Charles J. Rzepka (Boston University)
24. What Price Hollywood? Modern American Writers and the Movies: Mark Eaton (Azusa Pacific University)
25. The Belated Tradition of Asian-American Modernism: Delia Konzett (University of New Hampshire)
26. Modernism and Protopostmodernism: Patrick O'Donnell (Michigan State University)
27. The Modern Novel in a New World Context: George B. Handley (Brigham Young University)
28. Reheated Figures: Five Ways of Looking at Leftovers: Jani Scandura (University of Minnesota)
Index
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. An Economic Hi.story of the United States 1900-1950: Eric Rauchway (University of California at Davis)
2. The Changing Status of Women 1900-1950: Nancy Woloch (Columbia University)
3. The Status of African Americans 1900-1950: Matthew Pratt Guterl (Indiana University)
4. Pragmatism, Power, and the Politics of Aesthetic Experience: Jeanne Follansbee Quinn (Harvard University)
5. Class and Sex in American Fiction: From Casual Laborers to Accidental Desires: Michael Trask (University of Kentucky)
6. Jazz: From the Gutter to the Mainstream: Jeremy Yudkin (Boston University)
7. French Visual Humanisms and the American Style: Justus Nieland (Michigan State University)
8. Early Literary Modernism: Andrew Lawson (Leeds Metropolitan University)
9. Naturalism: Turn-of-the-Century Modernism: Donna Campbell (Washington State University)
10. Money and Things: Capitalist Realism, Anxiety, and Social Critique in Works by Hemingway, Wharton, and Fitzgerald: Richard Godden (University of California at Irvine)
11. Chronic Modernism: Leigh Anne Duck (University of Memphis)
12. New Regionalisms: Literature and Uneven Development: Hsuan L. Hsu (University of California at Davis)
13. "The Possibilities of Hard-Won Land": Midwestern Modernism and the Novel: Edward P. Comentale (Indiana University)
14. Writing the Modern South: Susan V. Donaldson (William and Mary College)
15. What Was High About Modernism? The American Novel and Modernity: John T. Matthews (Boston University)
16. African-American Modernisms: Michelle Stephens (Colgate College)
17. Ethnic Modernism: Rita Keresztesi (University of Oklahoma)
18. The Proletarian Novel: Barbara Foley (Rutgers University-Newark)
19. Revolutionary Sentiments: Modern American Domestic Fiction and the Rise of the Welfare State: Susan Edmunds (Syracuse University)
20. Lesbian Fiction 1900-1950: Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania)
21. The Gay Novel in the United States 1900-1950: Christopher Looby (University of California at Los Angeles)
22. The Popular Western: William R. Handley (University of Southern California)
23. Twentieth-Century American Crime and Detective Fiction: Charles J. Rzepka (Boston University)
24. What Price Hollywood? Modern American Writers and the Movies: Mark Eaton (Azusa Pacific University)
25. The Belated Tradition of Asian-American Modernism: Delia Konzett (University of New Hampshire)
26. Modernism and Protopostmodernism: Patrick O'Donnell (Michigan State University)
27. The Modern Novel in a New World Context: George B. Handley (Brigham Young University)
28. Reheated Figures: Five Ways of Looking at Leftovers: Jani Scandura (University of Minnesota)
Index
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. An Economic Hi.story of the United States 1900-1950: Eric Rauchway (University of California at Davis)
2. The Changing Status of Women 1900-1950: Nancy Woloch (Columbia University)
3. The Status of African Americans 1900-1950: Matthew Pratt Guterl (Indiana University)
4. Pragmatism, Power, and the Politics of Aesthetic Experience: Jeanne Follansbee Quinn (Harvard University)
5. Class and Sex in American Fiction: From Casual Laborers to Accidental Desires: Michael Trask (University of Kentucky)
6. Jazz: From the Gutter to the Mainstream: Jeremy Yudkin (Boston University)
7. French Visual Humanisms and the American Style: Justus Nieland (Michigan State University)
8. Early Literary Modernism: Andrew Lawson (Leeds Metropolitan University)
9. Naturalism: Turn-of-the-Century Modernism: Donna Campbell (Washington State University)
10. Money and Things: Capitalist Realism, Anxiety, and Social Critique in Works by Hemingway, Wharton, and Fitzgerald: Richard Godden (University of California at Irvine)
11. Chronic Modernism: Leigh Anne Duck (University of Memphis)
12. New Regionalisms: Literature and Uneven Development: Hsuan L. Hsu (University of California at Davis)
13. "The Possibilities of Hard-Won Land": Midwestern Modernism and the Novel: Edward P. Comentale (Indiana University)
14. Writing the Modern South: Susan V. Donaldson (William and Mary College)
15. What Was High About Modernism? The American Novel and Modernity: John T. Matthews (Boston University)
16. African-American Modernisms: Michelle Stephens (Colgate College)
17. Ethnic Modernism: Rita Keresztesi (University of Oklahoma)
18. The Proletarian Novel: Barbara Foley (Rutgers University-Newark)
19. Revolutionary Sentiments: Modern American Domestic Fiction and the Rise of the Welfare State: Susan Edmunds (Syracuse University)
20. Lesbian Fiction 1900-1950: Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania)
21. The Gay Novel in the United States 1900-1950: Christopher Looby (University of California at Los Angeles)
22. The Popular Western: William R. Handley (University of Southern California)
23. Twentieth-Century American Crime and Detective Fiction: Charles J. Rzepka (Boston University)
24. What Price Hollywood? Modern American Writers and the Movies: Mark Eaton (Azusa Pacific University)
25. The Belated Tradition of Asian-American Modernism: Delia Konzett (University of New Hampshire)
26. Modernism and Protopostmodernism: Patrick O'Donnell (Michigan State University)
27. The Modern Novel in a New World Context: George B. Handley (Brigham Young University)
28. Reheated Figures: Five Ways of Looking at Leftovers: Jani Scandura (University of Minnesota)
Index
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. An Economic Hi.story of the United States 1900-1950: Eric Rauchway (University of California at Davis)
2. The Changing Status of Women 1900-1950: Nancy Woloch (Columbia University)
3. The Status of African Americans 1900-1950: Matthew Pratt Guterl (Indiana University)
4. Pragmatism, Power, and the Politics of Aesthetic Experience: Jeanne Follansbee Quinn (Harvard University)
5. Class and Sex in American Fiction: From Casual Laborers to Accidental Desires: Michael Trask (University of Kentucky)
6. Jazz: From the Gutter to the Mainstream: Jeremy Yudkin (Boston University)
7. French Visual Humanisms and the American Style: Justus Nieland (Michigan State University)
8. Early Literary Modernism: Andrew Lawson (Leeds Metropolitan University)
9. Naturalism: Turn-of-the-Century Modernism: Donna Campbell (Washington State University)
10. Money and Things: Capitalist Realism, Anxiety, and Social Critique in Works by Hemingway, Wharton, and Fitzgerald: Richard Godden (University of California at Irvine)
11. Chronic Modernism: Leigh Anne Duck (University of Memphis)
12. New Regionalisms: Literature and Uneven Development: Hsuan L. Hsu (University of California at Davis)
13. "The Possibilities of Hard-Won Land": Midwestern Modernism and the Novel: Edward P. Comentale (Indiana University)
14. Writing the Modern South: Susan V. Donaldson (William and Mary College)
15. What Was High About Modernism? The American Novel and Modernity: John T. Matthews (Boston University)
16. African-American Modernisms: Michelle Stephens (Colgate College)
17. Ethnic Modernism: Rita Keresztesi (University of Oklahoma)
18. The Proletarian Novel: Barbara Foley (Rutgers University-Newark)
19. Revolutionary Sentiments: Modern American Domestic Fiction and the Rise of the Welfare State: Susan Edmunds (Syracuse University)
20. Lesbian Fiction 1900-1950: Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania)
21. The Gay Novel in the United States 1900-1950: Christopher Looby (University of California at Los Angeles)
22. The Popular Western: William R. Handley (University of Southern California)
23. Twentieth-Century American Crime and Detective Fiction: Charles J. Rzepka (Boston University)
24. What Price Hollywood? Modern American Writers and the Movies: Mark Eaton (Azusa Pacific University)
25. The Belated Tradition of Asian-American Modernism: Delia Konzett (University of New Hampshire)
26. Modernism and Protopostmodernism: Patrick O'Donnell (Michigan State University)
27. The Modern Novel in a New World Context: George B. Handley (Brigham Young University)
28. Reheated Figures: Five Ways of Looking at Leftovers: Jani Scandura (University of Minnesota)
Index