Companion to the Modern American Novel, 1900 - 1950

John T. Matthews is Professor of English and American Studies at Boston University. His publications include William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009); "The Sound and the Fury": Faulkner and the Lost Cause (1990); The Play of Faulkner's Language (1982); and numerous articles and chapters on Faulkner, including recent essays in Look Away! The U.S. South and New World Studies (2004) and American Literary History (2004). He is currently working on a study of the problem of the South in the modern American imagination. Matthews was a founding coeditor of The Faulkner Journal and serves on editorial boards for the New Southern Studies Series, Arizona Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, and The Mississippi Quarterly.

• Notes on Contributors viiiList of Figures xiiiPreface xivAcknowledgments xxiii1 An Economic History of the United States 1900–1950 1Eric Rauchway2 The Changing Status of Women 1900–1950 13Nancy Woloch3 The Status of African Americans 1900–1950 31Matthew Pratt Guterl4 Pragmatism, Power, and the Politics of Aesthetic Experience 56Jeanne Follansbee Quinn5 Class and Sex in American Fiction: From Casual Laborers to Accidental Desires 73Michael Trask6 Jazz: From the Gutter to the Mainstream 91Jeremy Yudkin7 French Visual Humanisms and the American Style 116Justus Nieland8 Early Literary Modernism 141Andrew Lawson9 Naturalism: Turn-of-the-Century Modernism 160Donna Campbell10 Money and Things: Capitalist Realism, Anxiety, and Social Critique in Works by Hemingway, Wharton, and Fitzgerald 181Richard Godden11 Chronic Modernism 202Leigh Anne Duck12 New Regionalisms: Literature and Uneven Development 218Hsuan L. Hsu13 “The Possibilities of Hard-Won Land”: Midwestern Modernism and the Novel 240Edward P. Comentale14 Writing the Modern South 266Susan V. Donaldson15 What Was High About Modernism? The American Novel and Modernity 282John T. Matthews16 African-American Modernisms 306Michelle Stephens17 Ethnic Modernism 324Rita Keresztesi18 The Proletarian Novel 353Barbara Foley19 Revolutionary Sentiments: Modern American Domestic Fiction and the Rise of the Welfare State 367Susan Edmunds20 Lesbian Fiction 1900–1950 392Heather Love21 The Gay Novel in the United States 1900–1950 414Christopher Looby22 The Popular Western 437William R. Handley23 Twentieth-Century American Crime and Detective Fiction 454Charles J. Rzepka24 What Price Hollywood? Modern American Writers and the Movies 466Mark Eaton25 The Belated Tradition of Asian-American Modernism 496Delia Konzett26 Modernism and Protopostmodernism 518Patrick O’Donnell27 The Modern Novel in a New World Context 535George B. Handley28 Reheated Figures: Five Ways of Looking at Leftovers 554Jani Scandura Index 579

Select Guide Rating