A Companion to the Modern American Novel 1900-1950

Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. An Economic Hi.story of the United States 1900-1950: Eric Rauchway (University of California at Davis)
2. The Changing Status of Women 1900-1950: Nancy Woloch (Columbia University)
3. The Status of African Americans 1900-1950: Matthew Pratt Guterl (Indiana University)
4. Pragmatism, Power, and the Politics of Aesthetic Experience: Jeanne Follansbee Quinn (Harvard University)
5. Class and Sex in American Fiction: From Casual Laborers to Accidental Desires: Michael Trask (University of Kentucky)
6. Jazz: From the Gutter to the Mainstream: Jeremy Yudkin (Boston University)
7. French Visual Humanisms and the American Style: Justus Nieland (Michigan State University)
8. Early Literary Modernism: Andrew Lawson (Leeds Metropolitan University)
9. Naturalism: Turn-of-the-Century Modernism: Donna Campbell (Washington State University)
10. Money and Things: Capitalist Realism, Anxiety, and Social Critique in Works by Hemingway, Wharton, and Fitzgerald: Richard Godden (University of California at Irvine)
11. Chronic Modernism: Leigh Anne Duck (University of Memphis)
12. New Regionalisms: Literature and Uneven Development: Hsuan L. Hsu (University of California at Davis)
13. "The Possibilities of Hard-Won Land": Midwestern Modernism and the Novel: Edward P. Comentale (Indiana University)
14. Writing the Modern South: Susan V. Donaldson (William and Mary College)
15. What Was High About Modernism? The American Novel and Modernity: John T. Matthews (Boston University)
16. African-American Modernisms: Michelle Stephens (Colgate College)
17. Ethnic Modernism: Rita Keresztesi (University of Oklahoma)
18. The Proletarian Novel: Barbara Foley (Rutgers University-Newark)
19. Revolutionary Sentiments: Modern American Domestic Fiction and the Rise of the Welfare State: Susan Edmunds (Syracuse University)
20. Lesbian Fiction 1900-1950: Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania)
21. The Gay Novel in the

John T. Matthews is Professor of English at Boston University. His publications include William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009); 'The Sound and the Fury': Faulkner and the Lost Cause (1990); The Play of Faulkner's Language (1982); and numerous articles and chapters on Faulkner, including recent essays in Look Away! The U.S. South and New World Studies (2004) and American Literary History (2004). He is currently working on a study of the problem of the South in the modern American imagination. Matthews was a founding co-editor of The Faulkner Journal and serves on editorial boards for the New Southern Studies Series, Arizona Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, and The Mississippi Quarterly.

"Matthews has produced the best book on Faulkner this year." (American Literary Scholarship, 2010) "A strong contribution to literature on modernist American studies, this marvelous collection offers a comprehensive overview of modern American fiction and its study, along with directions for new scholarship." (CHOICE, 2009)

"A strong contribution to literature on modernist American studies, this marvelous collection offers a comprehensive overview of modern American fiction and its study, along with directions for new scholarship." ( CHOICE , 2009)