Stoneley, Peter
A Concise Companion to American Fiction 1900 - 1950
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
- Author(s)
- Stoneley, Peter
- Weinstein, Cindy
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 328 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780470693292
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405133678