An authoritative consultant to American literature, this Companion examines the experimental types, socio-cultural alterations, literary hobbies, and significant authors of the early twentieth century. This Companion presents authoritative and wide-ranging advice on early twentieth-century American fiction.
- Considers regularly studied authors corresponding to Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, along key texts of the interval via Richard Wright, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, and Anzia Yezierska
- Examines how the works of those varied writers were interpreted of their personal day and the way present readings have elevated our realizing in their cultural and literary significance
- Covers a vast diversity of subject matters, together with the 1st and moment international Wars, literary language variations, writer megastar, the city panorama, modernism, the Jazz Age, the good melancholy, regionalism, and African-American fiction
- Gives scholars the contextual details priceless for formulating their very own opinions of vintage American fiction
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