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Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s

Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s A useful addition to modernist scholarship is A Companion to the Modern American Novel 1900–1950, ed. John T. Matthews (Wiley), a collection of 28 essays by authors who treat a wide range of approaches to modernism and modernity, from the historical to the literary. Among the many topics considered in relation to modernism are economics, capitalism, sex and class, jazz, naturalism, regionalism, ethnicity, gender, proletarianism, domestic fiction, lesbian fiction, the gay novel, American Literary Scholarship (2009) doi 10.1215/00659142-1264828 © 2011 by Duke University Press protopostmodernism, Asian American literature, film, and subgenres such as detective fiction and the western. An aim of the volume is to “extend” Peter Nicholls’s notion that scholars “should be thinking more in terms of a plurality of modernisms, including a range of ethnic and mass-cultural varieties,” as well as “to complicate the origins and purposes of modernism” and “to incite reconsideration, inquiry, and speculation.” A single modernist decade is the focus of Peter Conn’s The American 1930s: A Literary History (Cambridge). In an effort to show the “extraordinary intellectual range” of that decade, Conn treats a main concern of 1930s writers, their “extensive and complex engagement with the past, in myriad forms: the memoirs http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Literary Scholarship Duke University Press

Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s

Calloway, Catherine
American Literary Scholarship , Volume 2009 (1) – Jan 1, 2011
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A useful addition to modernist scholarship is A Companion to the Modern American Novel 1900–1950, ed. John T. Matthews (Wiley), a collection of 28 essays by authors who treat a wide range of approaches to modernism and modernity, from the historical to the literary. Among the many topics considered in relation to modernism are economics, capitalism, sex and class, jazz, naturalism, regionalism, ethnicity, gender, proletarianism, domestic fiction, lesbian fiction, the gay novel, American Literary Scholarship (2009) doi 10.1215/00659142-1264828 © 2011 by Duke University Press protopostmodernism, Asian American literature, film, and subgenres such as detective fiction and the western. An aim of the volume is to “extend” Peter Nicholls’s notion that scholars “should be thinking more in terms of a plurality of modernisms, including a range of ethnic and mass-cultural varieties,” as well as “to complicate the origins and purposes of modernism” and “to incite reconsideration, inquiry, and speculation.” A single modernist decade is the focus of Peter Conn’s The American 1930s: A Literary History (Cambridge). In an effort to show the “extraordinary intellectual range” of that decade, Conn treats a main concern of 1930s writers, their “extensive and complex engagement with the past, in myriad forms: the memoirs

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