{"product_id":"a-companion-to-the-modern-american-novel-1900-1950-paperback-softback-9781118492086","title":"A Companion to the Modern American Novel, 1900 - 1950 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781118492086","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to the Modern American Novel, 1900 - 1950\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A strong contribution to literature on modernist American studies, this marvelous collection offers a comprehensive overview of modern American fiction and its study, along with directions for new scholarship.\" (\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e, 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn T. Matthews (Edited by), JT Matthews (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781118492086, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 May 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e624 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.1 x 17 x 3 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together 28 original essays from leading scholars\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAllows readers to orient individual works and authors in their principal cultural and social contexts\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContributes to efforts to recover minority voices, such as those of African American novelists, and popular subgenres, such as detective fiction\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDirects students to major relevant scholarship for further inquiry\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSuggests the many ways that “modern”, “American” and “fiction” carry new meanings in the twenty-first century\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xxiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 An Economic History of the United States 1900–1950 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEric Rauchway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Changing Status of Women 1900–1950 13\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNancy Woloch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Status of African Americans 1900–1950 31\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMatthew Pratt Guterl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Pragmatism, Power, and the Politics of Aesthetic Experience 56\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeanne Follansbee Quinn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Class and Sex in American Fiction: From Casual Laborers to Accidental Desires 73\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Trask\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Jazz: From the Gutter to the Mainstream 91\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeremy Yudkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 French Visual Humanisms and the American Style 116\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJustus Nieland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Early Literary Modernism 141\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew Lawson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Naturalism: Turn-of-the-Century Modernism 160\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDonna Campbell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Money and Things: Capitalist Realism, Anxiety, and Social Critique in Works by Hemingway, Wharton, and Fitzgerald 181\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Godden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Chronic Modernism 202\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLeigh Anne Duck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 New Regionalisms: Literature and Uneven Development 218\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHsuan L. Hsu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 “The Possibilities of Hard-Won Land”: Midwestern Modernism and the Novel 240\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdward P. Comentale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Writing the Modern South 266\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan V. Donaldson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 What Was High About Modernism? The American Novel and Modernity 282\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn T. Matthews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 African-American Modernisms 306\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichelle Stephens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Ethnic Modernism 324\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRita Keresztesi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The Proletarian Novel 353\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBarbara Foley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Revolutionary Sentiments: Modern American Domestic Fiction and the Rise of the Welfare State 367\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan Edmunds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Lesbian Fiction 1900–1950 392\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHeather Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 The Gay Novel in the United States 1900–1950 414\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher Looby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 The Popular Western 437\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWilliam R. Handley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Twentieth-Century American Crime and Detective Fiction 454\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCharles J. Rzepka\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 What Price Hollywood? Modern American Writers and the Movies 466\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMark Eaton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 The Belated Tradition of Asian-American Modernism 496\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDelia Konzett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Modernism and Protopostmodernism 518\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePatrick O’Donnell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 The Modern Novel in a New World Context 535\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorge B. 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