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A Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900 – 1950 1st Edition

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Full Title

A Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900 – 1950 1st Edition

Author(s)

Peter Stoneley, Cindy Weinstein

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9780470693292, 9781405133678, 9780470694107

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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 Yezierska Examines 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 significance Covers 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 fiction Gives students the contextual information necessary for formulating their own critiques of classic American fiction