The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel offers a comprehensive analysis of US modernism as part of a global literature.

Joshua L. Miller (Edited by)

9781107083950, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 November 2015

302 pages, 5 b/w illus.
23.2 x 15.9 x 2.2 cm, 0.53 kg

'The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel, part of the Cambridge Companions to Literature series, provides over a dozen original, analytical essays about American modernist novels and their relations to global literatures and movements.' Lindley Homol, Librarian, University College Library, University of Maryland

The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel offers a comprehensive analysis of US modernism as part of a wider, global literature. Both modernist and American literary studies have been reshaped by waves of scholarship that unsettled prior consensuses regarding America's relation to transnational, diasporic, and indigenous identities and aesthetics; the role of visual and musical arts in narrative experimentation; science and technology studies; and allegiances across racial, ethnic, gendered, and sexual social groups. Recent writing on US immigration, imperialism, and territorial expansion has generated fresh and exciting reasons to read or reread modernist novelists, both prominent and forgotten. Written by a host of leading scholars, this Companion provides unique interpretations and approaches to modernist themes, techniques, and texts.

1. Introduction Joshua L. Miller
2. Regionalisms in American modernism Harry Stecopolou
3. Trans-Pacific modernisms Denise Cruz
4. Ethnic American modernisms Catherine Morley
5. The worlds of black literary modernism Kevin Bell
6. Gender and geomodernisms Yogita Goyal
7. Borderlands modernism Mary Pat Brady
8. Queering the American modernist novel Scott Herring
9. Visual cultures of American modernism Jeff Allred
10. Jazz and blues modernisms Emily Lordi
11. Translation in American modernism Daniel Katz
12. The scientific imagination of US modernism Steven Meyer
13. New media modernism Julian Murphet
14. American modernism in the world Gayle Rogers.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Literary studies: general [DSB], Literary theory [DSA]