A Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900 - 1950
<p><b>An authoritative guide to American literature, this <i>Companion</i> examines the experimental forms, socio-cultural changes, literary movements, and major authors of the early 20th century. This <i>Companion</i> provides authoritative and wide-ranging guidance on early twentieth-century American fiction.</b></p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>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</li> <li>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</li> <li>Gives students the contextual information necessary for formulating their own critiques of classic American fiction</li> </ul>
