The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel

by Joshua L. Miller (Editor)

Overview

The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel offers a comprehensive analysis of U.S. modernism as part of a wider, global literature. Both modernist and American literary studies have been reshaped by waves of scholarship that unsettled prior consensuses regarding America's relation to transnational, diasporic, and indigenous identities and aesthetics; the role of visual and musical arts in narrative experimentation; science and technology studies; and allegiances across racial, ethnic, gendered, and sexual social groups. Recent writing on U.S. immigration, imperialism, and territorial expansion has generated fresh and exciting reasons to read or reread modernist novelists, both prominent and forgotten. Written by a host of leading scholars, this Companion provides unique interpretations and approaches to modernist themes, techniques, and texts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781107445895
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/29/2015
Series:	Cambridge Companions to Literature
Pages:	297
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Joshua Miller is Associate Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. His first book, Accented America: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism, analyzed the mixed languages of interwar US literary modernism. He is also coeditor of the forthcoming book, The Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Joshua L. Miller; 2. Regionalisms in American modernism Harry Stecopolou; 3. Trans-Pacific modernisms Denise Cruz; 4. Ethnic American modernisms Catherine Morley; 5. The worlds of black literary modernism Kevin Bell; 6. Gender and geomodernisms Yogita Goyal; 7. Borderlands modernism Mary Pat Brady; 8. Queering the American modernist novel Scott Herring; 9. Visual cultures of American modernism Jeff Allred; 10. Jazz and blues modernisms Emily Lordi; 11. Translation in American modernism Daniel Katz; 12. The scientific imagination of US modernism Steven Meyer; 13. New media modernism Julian Murphet; 14. American modernism in the world Gayle Rogers.

Editorial Reviews

'The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel is a rich, dynamic, and intensely interesting collection of essays that will be of interest to both undergraduate students encountering American modernism for the first time, and seasoned scholars.' Rachele Dini, European journal of American studies

'The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel, part of the Cambridge Companions to Literature series, provides over a dozen original, analytical essays about American modernist novels and their relations to global literatures and movements.' Lindley Homol, Librarian, University College Library, University of Maryland

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