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An authoritative guide to American literature, this Companion examines the experimental forms, socio-cultural changes, literary movements, and major authors of the early 20th century. This Companion provides authoritative and wide-ranging guidance on early twentieth-century American fiction. * Considers commonly studied authors such as Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, alongside key texts of the period by Richard Wright, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, and Anzia Yezierska * Examines how the works of these diverse writers have been interpreted in their own day and how current readings have expanded our understanding of their cultural and literary significance * Covers a broad range of topics, including the First and Second World Wars, literary language differences, author celebrity, the urban landscape, modernism, the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, regionalism, and African-American fiction * Gives students the contextual information necessary for formulating their own critiques of classic American fiction

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Concise Companion to American Fiction 1900-1950
• Author: Peter Stoneley
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9781405133678
• ISBN: 1405133678
• ID: 04955013
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Weight: 588 g
• Dimensions: 238 × 159 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. December 2007

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