The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism

by Edited by Walter Kalaidjian

• ISBN13: 9780521829953
• ISBN10: 052182995X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 reference guide to the field, the Companion offers readers a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States, and an up-to-date bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
List of contributors	ix
Chronology	xii
Introduction	1	(11)
Walter Kalaidjian
Nationalism and the modern American canon	12	(27)
Mark Morrisson
Part I Genre
Modern American fiction	39	(29)
Rita Barnard
Modern American poetry	68	(34)
Cary Nelson
Modern American drama	102	(27)
Stephen Watt
Part II Culture
American modernism and the New Negro Renaissance	129	(28)
Mark A. Sanders
Jazz and American modernism	157	(20)
Jed Rasula
Visual culture	177	(18)
Michael North
The avant-garde phase of American modernism	195	(26)
Marjorie Perloff
Part III Society
Gender and sexuality	221	(21)
Janet Lyon
Regionalism in American modernism	242	(19)
John N. Duvall
Social representations within American modernism	261	(23)
Paula Rabinowitz
Modern American literary criticism	284	(24)
Douglas Mao
Further reading	308	(12)
Index	320