A Companion to the Modern American Novel - 1900-1950 - Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

Sep 18, 2026

A Companion to the Modern American Novel 1900–1950, edited by John T. Matthews, is part of the Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series, offering newly written, comprehensive surveys of key literary periods, movements, and major authors within English literary culture and history. The volume organizes critical perspectives on contextual and canonical as well as post-canonical texts, and it is structured with bibliographical references and an index. Contents include thematic chapters covering economic history, shifting social roles, race, aesthetic politics, class and desire, jazz, visual humanisms, early literary modernism, and related literary trends.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages617

Reading Time15 h 50 min

AccessFree to download

Contents

Notes on Contributors

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 An Economic History of the United States 1900–1950

2 The Changing Status of Women 1900–1950

3 The Status of African Americans 1900–1950

4 Pragmatism, Power, and the Politics of Aesthetic Experience

5 Class and Sex in American Fiction: From Casual Laborers to Accidental Desires

6 Jazz: From the Gutter to the Mainstream

7 French Visual Humanisms and the American Style

8 Early Literary Modernism

9 Naturalism: Turn-of-the

A Companion to the Modern American Novel 1900–1950 A Companion to the Modern American Novel 1900–1950 Edited by John T. Matthews © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ISBN: 978-0-631-20687-3 Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new ﬁelds of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the ﬁeld. Published Recently: 40. A Companion to Walt Whitman Edited by Donald D. Kummings 41. A Companion to Herman Melville Edited by Wyn Kelley 42. A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture c.1350–c.1500 Edited by Peter Brown 43. A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama: 1880–2005 Edited by Mary Luckhurst 44. A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry Edited by Christine Gerrard 45. A Companion to Shakespeare’s Sonnets Edited by Michael Schoenfeldt 46. A Companion to Satire Edited by Ruben Quintero 47. A Companion to William Faulkner Edited by Richard C. Moreland 48. A Companion to the History of the Book Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose 49. A Companion to Emily Dickinson Edited by Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz 50. A Companion to Digital Literary Studies Edited by Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman 51. A Companion to Charles Dickens Edited by David Paroissien 52. A Companion to James Joyce Edited by Richard Brown 53. A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture Edited by Sara Castro-Klaren 54. A Companion to the History of the English Language Edited by Haruko Momma and Michael Matto 55. A Companion to Henry James Edited by Greg Zacharias 56. A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story Edited by Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm 57. A Companion to Jane Austen Edited by Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite 58. A Companion to the Arthurian Literature Edited by Helen Fulton 59. A Companion to the Modern American Novel 1900–1950 Edited by John T. Matthews For more information on the Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series, please visit www.wiley. com A C O M P A N I O N T O THE MODERN AMERICAN NOVEL 1900–1950 EDITED BY JOHN T. MATTHEWS A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication This edition ﬁrst published 2009 © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in February 2007. Blackwell’s publishing program has been merged with Wiley’s global Scientiﬁc, Technical, and Medical business to form Wiley-Blackwell. Registered Ofﬁce John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, United Kingdom Editorial Ofﬁces 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK For details of our global editorial ofﬁces, for customer services, and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at www.wiley. com/wiley-blackwell. The right of John T. Matthews to be identiﬁed as the author of the editorial material in this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Designations used

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Who edited A Companion to the Modern American Novel 1900–1950?

The book is edited by John T. Matthews.

What time period does the companion focus on?

It focuses on the modern American novel from 1900 to 1950.

What kinds of topics are covered in the table of contents?

The contents include chapters on economic history, changing status of women, African American status, pragmatism and politics of aesthetic experience, class and sex in American fiction, and related modernist literary developments.

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