Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900 - 1950

Peter Stoneley is Professor of English in the School of English and American Literature at the University of Reading. He is author of Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic (1992), Consumerism and American Girls’ Literature, 1860–1940 (2003), and A Queer History of the Ballet (2006). Cindy Weinstein is Professor of English at the California Institute of Technology. She is author of Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2004), The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature: Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (1995), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe (2004).

• Notes on Contributors viiChronology xiAcknowledgments xviiiIntroduction 11 Turning the Century 17Michael A. Elliott and Jennifer A. Hughes2 Women and Modernity 37Jennifer L. Fleissner3 Queer Modernity and Lesbian Representation 57Kathryn R. Kent4 Markets and “Gatekeepers” 77Loren Glass5 Manhood, Modernity, and Crime Fiction 94David Schmid6 American Sentences: Terms, Topics, and Techniques in Stylistic Analysis 113Paul Simpson and Donald E. Hardy7 The Great Gatsby as Mobilization Fiction: Rethinking Modernist Prose 132Keith Gandal8 Modernism’s History of the Dead 158Michael Szalay9 The Radical 1930s 186Alan M. Wald10 Racial Uplift and the Politics of African American Fiction 205Gene Andrew Jarrett11 The Modernism of Southern Literature 228Florence Dore12 Cosmopolis 253Mary Esteve13 Other Modernisms 275John Carlos RoweIndex 295