Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Matthews, John T.,

Titel

A companion to the modern American novel 1900-1950

Auflage

1st ed

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell,

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

• Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Books

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• "Edition history: Blackwell Publishing Ltd (hardback, 2009)."
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Intro -- 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 -- Art's Special Knowledge: Identification and the Aesthetics of Cognition -- Identification Without Identity: Pragmatism and the Aesthetics of Contradiction -- Pragmatism and the Limits of Justice -- 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 -- 9 Naturalism: Turn-of-the-Century Modernism -- 10 Money and Things: Capitalist Realism, Anxiety, and Social Critique in Works by Hemingway, Wharton, and Fitzgerald -- 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 -- Black Faces: Racial Masquerade and Early African-American Modernism -- New World Negroes: Modernism, Modernity and the Black Diaspora -- Black Looks: Women of Color Facing White Modernism and Black Modernity -- White Masks: Performing Modern Blackness -- 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 -- Introduction -- The Evolving Concept of Asian-American Literature -- The Question of Asian-American Modernism -- The Modernist Aesthetics of Migration and Dislocation: Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart and Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea -- World War II Orientalism and Modernism -- The Limits and Trajectories of 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 -- Index.
• English
• Description based on print version record.