The Cambridge History of American Modeism (The Cambridge History of American Literature)

by: Mark Whalan (Editor)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 2023/10/5

Language: English

Print Length: 700 pages

ISBN-10: 1108477674

ISBN-13: 9781108477673

Book Description

The Cambridge History of American Modeism 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 modeism: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, geomodeism, 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 modeism flourished-from its distinctive regions to its metropolitan cities, from its hemispheric connections to the salons and political groupings that hosted new cultural collaborations.

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The Cambridge History of American Modeism 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 modeism: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, geomodeism, 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 modeism flourished-from its distinctive regions to its metropolitan cities, from its hemispheric connections to the salons and political groupings that hosted new cultural collaborations.