A Companion to the Modern American Novel 1900 - 1950

This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole.

• Brings together 28 original essays from leading scholars

• Allows readers to orient individual works and authors in their principal cultural and social contexts

• Contributes to efforts to recover minority voices, such as those of African American novelists, and popular subgenres, such as detective fiction

• Directs students to major relevant scholarship for further inquiry

• Suggests the many ways that “modern”, “American” and “fiction” carry new meanings in the twenty-first century
  

Keywords: American Novel, Modern American Novel, John T. Matthews