American Modern(ist) Epic - Novels to Refound a Nation

American Modern(ist) Epic argues that a cadre of minority novelists revitalized the classic epic form in an effort to recast the United States according to modern, diverse, and pluralistic grounds. These modern(ist) epic novels undermined and revised the foundational ideology of the United States, modernizing the epic form in an effort to refound the nation.

About the author

Adam Nemmers is an Assistant Professor of English at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, where he teaches courses in American literature. His research focuses on modernism and multi-ethnic American literature, including recent essays and articles on Passing, Richard Wright, Faulkner, and radio drama. His forthcoming published work will include essays and articles on American protest literature, Southern matriarchy, and the Midwestern Ecogothic; an anthology of Transatlantic literature across the long nineteenth century; and a monograph on American modernism and the epic. He is currently at work on a book project about the public display of Black bodies in American literature.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Nemmers
• Publisher: Clemson University Digital Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781949979664
• ISBN: 978-1-949979-66-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 574 g
• Series: Clemson University Press; Clemson University Press w/ LUP
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies