Cambridge Companion to American Modernism

Name: Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
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ISBN: 9780521536806

ISBN-10: 0521536804

ISBN-13: 9780521536806

Edition: 2005

Authors: Walter Kalaidjian

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The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of American literary modernism from 1890 to 1939. These original essays by twelve distinguished scholars of international reputation offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of Modern American literature and cultural studies. Among the diverse topics covered are nationalism, race, gender and the impact of music and visual arts on literary modernism, as well as overviews of the achievements of American modernism in fiction, poetry and drama. The book concludes with a chapter on modern American criticism. An essential…

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 354
Size: 6.10" wide x 8.94" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of illustrations


List of contributors


Chronology


Introduction




Nationalism and the modern American canon




Genre



Modern American fiction




Modern American poetry




Modern American drama




Culture



American modernism and the New Negro Renaissance




Jazz and American modernism




Visual culture




The avant-garde phase of American modernism




Society



Gender and sexuality




Regionalism in American modernism




Social representations within American modernism




Modern American literary criticism



Further reading


Index