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The Cambridge History of American Modernism

Part of The Cambridge History of American Literature

Editor: Mark Whalan, University of Oregon

Mark Whalan, Adrienne Brown, Alex Goody, Andrew Thacker, Benjamin Kahan, Bill V. Mullen, Catherine Morley, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Eric Aronoff, Eric B. White, Faye Hammill, Greg Barnhisel, Guy Reynolds, Ichiro Takayoshi, Jeremy Braddock, Jessica Teague, John Fagg, Jon Smith, Jonathan P. Eburne, Jonathan Vincent, Josephine Park, Joshua Schuster, Julian Murphet, Karen Leick, Kasia Boddy, Katherine Biers, Linda Kinnahan, Lisa Siraganian, Lise Jaillant, Matthew Stratton, Melanie Benson Taylor, Michael Kindellan, Nathaniel Cadle, Rachel Galvin, Shonni Enelow, Sonnet Retman, Tom McEnaney, Yogita Goyal

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Date Published: July 2023
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781108477673

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The Cambridge History of American Modernism examines one of the most innovative periods of American literary history. It offers a comprehensive account of the forms, genres, and media that characterized US modernism: coverage ranges from the traditional, such as short stories, novels, and poetry, to the new media that shaped the period's literary culture, such as jazz, cinema, the skyscraper, and radio. This volume charts how recent methodologies such as ecocriticism, geomodernism, and print culture studies have refashioned understandings of the field, and attends to the contestations and inequities of race, sovereignty, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity that shaped the period and its cultural production. It also explores the geographies and communities wherein US modernism flourished-from its distinctive regions to its metropolitan cities, from its hemispheric connections to the salons and political groupings that hosted new cultural collaborations.
- Brings together some of the most innovative recent scholarship on US modernism
- Offers a comprehensive account of the forms, genres, media, and locations of US modernism
- Puts transnational approaches and nation-based approaches in productive dialogue
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- Date Published: July 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108477673
- length: 700 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 159 x 46 mm
- weight: 1.28kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Part I. Methodologies:
1. The US and Geomodernism Yogita Goyal
2. Evading Comstockery: The Provincetown Theater, the Harlem Renaissance, and US Queer Modernism Benjamin Kahan
3. Our Americas: Locating Modernisms, Dislocating Regionalisms and the Place of Cultures Eric Aronoff
4. Green Modernism Joshua Schuster
5. Modernism and the Middlebrow Faye Hammill
6. 'The Accent of the Future': Ethnic American Modernism Catherine Morley
Part II. Forms, Genre, and Media
7. New Visual Media Julian Murphet
8. Midwestern Modernism and the Radio: Eliot, Hughes, Niedecker Tom McEnaney
9. Modernist Writing and Painting John Fagg
10. Modern Folk, Modernist Documentary Sonnet Retman
11. Skyscraper Organizations: Architecture and US Literary Modernism Adrienne Brown
12. The Jazz Age Jessica Teague
13. Modernism's Deep Roots: the fin-de-siecle and the Transformation of the American Novel Guy Reynolds
14. Modernizing the American Short Story Kasia Boddy
15. Modernist American Long Poems Michael Kindellan
16. The Modernist Lyric and its Discontents Linda Kinnahan
17. Anthologies Jeremy Braddock
18. Fragile Realism: American Drama in the Interwar Period Katherine Biers
19. Post-WWII Theater and Media: Citation and Improvisation Shonni Enelow
20. The Limits of an American Modernist Avant-Garde Lisa Siraganian
21. Magazines Andrew Thacker
22. The Modernist Presses Lise Jaillant
23. Literary Criticism Ichiro Takayoshi
24. Libertad Bajo Palabra: Surrealism in the Americas Jonathan P. Eburne
Part III. Situating US Modernism: A. Situating in History
25. War Jonathan Vincent
26. Modernism, Personality, and the Racialized State Matthew Stratton
27. Modernism of the Streets: How the Left Made a Culture from Below Bill V. Mullen
28. Late Modernism Greg Barnhisel
B. Situating in Geography
29. Transnational Circuits and Homemade Machines: US Modernism in Europe Eric B. White
30. The American Metropolis Nathaniel Cadle
31. Hemispheric Modernisms, Imperial Modernisms: Modernism in the Americas Rachel Galvin
32. Southern Modernism Jon Smith
33. Transpacific Modernism Josephine Park
C. Situating in Movements and Communities
34. Indigenous Modernism Melanie Benson Taylor
35. Sketching the Terrain of African American Modernism Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
36. The New Woman and American Modernism Alex Goody
37. Celebrity and American Modernism: Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway Karen Leick.
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Editor
Mark Whalan, University of Oregon
Mark Whalan is Robert and Eve Horn Professor of English and Head of English at the University of Oregon. He has written several books on US modernism, including World War One, American Literature, and the Federal State (2018), American Culture in the 1910s (2010), The Great War and The Culture of the New Negro (2008) and The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919–1924 (2006), ed.
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Mark Whalan, Adrienne Brown, Alex Goody, Andrew Thacker, Benjamin Kahan, Bill V. Mullen, Catherine Morley, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Eric Aronoff, Eric B. White, Faye Hammill, Greg Barnhisel, Guy Reynolds, Ichiro Takayoshi, Jeremy Braddock, Jessica Teague, John Fagg, Jon Smith, Jonathan P. Eburne, Jonathan Vincent, Josephine Park, Joshua Schuster, Julian Murphet, Karen Leick, Kasia Boddy, Katherine Biers, Linda Kinnahan, Lisa Siraganian, Lise Jaillant, Matthew Stratton, Melanie Benson Taylor, Michael Kindellan, Nathaniel Cadle, Rachel Galvin, Shonni Enelow, Sonnet Retman, Tom McEnaney, Yogita Goyal