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Record Nr.

UNINA9910145736603321

Titolo

A concise companion to American fiction, 1900-1950 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Peter Stoneley and Cindy Weinstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2008

ISBN

1-78268-431-X

1-281-30877-3

9786611308773

1-4051-8494-9

0-470-69410-6

0-470-69329-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Collana

Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

StoneleyPeter

WeinsteinCindy

Disciplina

813

813.5209

813/.5209

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A Concise Companion to American Fiction 1900-1950; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chronology; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Turning the Century; 2 Women and Modernity; 3 Queer Modernity and Lesbian Representation; 4 Markets and "Gatekeepers"; 5 Manhood, Modernity, and Crime Fiction; 6 American Sentences: Terms, Topics, and Techniques in Stylistic Analysis; 7 The Great Gatsby as Mobilization Fiction: Rethinking Modernist Prose; 8 Modernism's History of the Dead; 9 The Radical 1930s; 10 Racial Uplift and the Politics of African American Fiction; 11 The Modernism of Southern Literature

12 Cosmopolis13 Other Modernisms; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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