This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for thestudy of the modern American novel. Published at a time whenliterary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflectscurrent investigations into the origins and character of themovement as a whole.
* Brings together 28 original essays from leadingscholars
* Allows readers to orient individual works and authors in theirprincipal cultural and social contexts
* Contributes to efforts to recover minority voices, such asthose of African American novelists, and popular subgenres, such asdetective fiction
* Directs students to major relevant scholarship for furtherinquiry
* Suggests the many ways that "modern","American" and "fiction" carry new meaningsin the twenty-first century