A Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900 - 1950

Stoneley, Peter; Weinstein, Cindy

An authoritative guide to American literature, this Companion examines the experimental forms, socio-cultural changes, literary movements, and major authors of the early 20th century. This Companion provides authoritative and wide-ranging guidance on early twentieth-century American fiction.

• Considers commonly studied authors such as Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, alongside key texts of the period by Richard Wright, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, and Anzia Yezierska
• Examines how the works of these diverse writers have been interpreted in their own day and how current readings have expanded our understanding of their cultural and literary significance
• Covers a broad range of topics, including the First and Second World Wars, literary language differences, author celebrity, the urban landscape, modernism, the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, regionalism, and African-American fiction
• Gives students the contextual information necessary for formulating their own critiques of classic American fiction

Details

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2008-02-04

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781405133678

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Dimensions: 236.7cm x160.8cm

Pages: 328.0