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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a Theory of American Vernacular Modernism
1. “The Steady Reaching Out for New and Vivid Forms”:H. L. Mencken and the American Revolution of the Word
2. “Never Mind the Comical Stuff. . . . They Ain’t No Joke about This!”: Ring Lardner, Anita Loos, and the Comic Origins of Vernacular Modernism
3. “I Didn’t Understand the Words, but My Voice Was Like Dynamite”: Anzia Yezierska, Mike Gold, and the Jewish American Break with Realism
4. “Say It with Lead”: Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, and Modernism’s Underworld Vernacular
5. “The Necromancy of Language”: Realist Uplift and the Urban Vernacular in Rudolph Fisher and Claude McKay
Conclusion: Modernism’s Familial Relations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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