A Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900 - 1950 Hardback
Edited by Peter (University of Reading) Stoneley, Cindy (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA) Weinstein
Part of the Concise Companions to Literature and Culture series
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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 YezierskaExamines 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 significanceCovers 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 fictionGives students the contextual information necessary for formulating their own critiques of classic American fiction
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:328 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:27/12/2007
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- ISBN:9781405133678
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:328 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:27/12/2007
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- ISBN:9781405133678