Matthews - A Companion to the Modern American Novel, 1900 - 1950

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A companion to the modern American novel 19001950 / edited by John T. Matthews.

p. cm. (Blackwell companions to literature and culture)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-631-20687-3 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-118-49208-6 (pbk.)

1. American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismHandbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Modernism (Literature)United States. I. Matthews, John T.

PS379.C63 2009

813.5209dc22

2008036226

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Cover image: Edward Hopper, Nighthawks (detail), 1942, oil on canvas, 84.1 152.4 cm. Friends of American Art Collection, 1942.51, The Art Institute of Chicago. Photograph by Robert Hashimoto. Reproduction The Art Institute of Chicago.

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Notes on Contributors

Donna Campbell is Professor of English at Washington State University. She has written Resisting Regionalism: Gender and Naturalism in American Fiction, 18801915 (1997), and has published widely in scholarly journals on American literature. She writes the annual Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s chapter for American Literary Scholarship . Her next book will be a study of women writers of naturalism.

Edward P. Comentale is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University. His first book was Modernism, Cultural Production, and the British Avant-Garde , and he is now at work on a monograph treating modernism, regionalism, and popular music entitled The State Im In: Modernism and American Popular Music . Recent articles deal with the modernist Midwest, William Faulkner, country music, and the Coen brothers.

Susan V. Donaldson is the National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of English and American Studies at William and Mary College. She has written Competing Voices: The American Novel, 18651914 (1998), and coedited, with Anne Goodwyn Jones, Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts (1997). Current projects include books on the politics of storytelling in the US South and on William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, and the demise of Jim Crow.

Leigh Anne Duck teaches at the University of Memphis, where she is Associate Professor of English and an affiliate of the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change and the Center for Research on Women. Her book, The Nations Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism , appeared in 2006, and she has begun a new cross-cultural project on literature of the US South and South Africa.

Mark Eaton specializes in American literature, African-American literature, American ethnic literature, postmodernism, and film studies at Azusa Pacific University, where he Professor of English. He is coeditor, with Emily Griesinger, of a volume of essays called The Gift of Story: Narrating Hope in a Postmodern World (2006) and has published widely on American literature and culture in scholarly journals.