A Companion to the Modern American Novel 1900 - 1950 by Matthews, John T. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Title page Copyright page Notes on Contributors List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments 1 An Economic History of the United States 1900–1950

The Move to the Cities, 1900–1920 The Prosperity Decade The New Deal The War and After The Postwar Settlements

2 The Changing Status of Women 1900–1950

Workers, Migrants, and Immigrants Middle-Class Women: Education, Career, and Social Reform Winning the Vote The 1920s: Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance The Great Depression and the New Deal Women and World War II Postwar Women: Mixed Messages African-American Women at Mid-Century Looking Ahead

3 The Status of African Americans 1900–1950

The Nadir Renaissance Depression Conclusion

4 Pragmatism, Power, and the Politics of Aesthetic Experience

5 Class and Sex in American Fiction: From Casual Laborers to Accidental Desires 6 Jazz: From the Gutter to the Mainstream 7 French Visual Humanisms and the American Style

The Age of the American Novel The Grammar of the Human: Ellipses and Adjectives Le Style Américain and the New Cosmopolitanism

8 Early Literary Modernism

Henry James William Dean Howells Mark Twain Stephen Crane Edith Wharton Theodore Dreiser

I II III IV

11 Chronic Modernism

Space, Culture, Bodies: Chronic Development Micromapping: Chronic Anxiety Conclusion: Chronic Politics

12 New Regionalisms: Literature and Uneven Development

Regionalism and the City, 1891–1914 A Nation of Regions, 1918–1941 Ethnic Regionalism

13 “The Possibilities of Hard-Won Land”: Midwestern Modernism and the Novel

Modernist Regionalism Midwestern Regions

14 Writing the Modern South 15 What Was High About Modernism? The American Novel and Modernity 16 African-American Modernisms

17 Ethnic Modernism 18 The Proletarian Novel 19 Revolutionary Sentiments: Modern American Domestic Fiction and the Rise of the Welfare State

Sentimental Activism and Welfare Reform Literary Responses

20 Lesbian Fiction 1900–1950 21 The Gay Novel in the United States 1900–1950 22 The Popular Western 23 Twentieth-Century American Crime and Detective Fiction

The Interwar Years Hearts of Darkness Cold War Developments “Alternative” Subgenres and Postmodern Detection

24 What Price Hollywood? Modern American Writers and the Movies 25 The Belated Tradition of Asian-American Modernism

26 Modernism and Protopostmodernism 27 The Modern Novel in a New World Context 28 Reheated Figures: Five Ways of Looking at Leftovers

No. 1: Remains No 2: Restitution No. 3: Cleverness No. 4: Presence No. 5: Gratitude

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