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The Cambridge History of American Modernism 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 modernism: 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, geomodernism, 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 modernism flourished-from its distinctive regions to its metropolitan cities, from its hemispheric connections to the salons and political groupings that hosted new cultural collaborations.
List of contents
Part I. Methodologies: 1. The US and Geomodernism Yogita Goyal; 2. Evading Comstockery: The Provincetown Theater, the Harlem Renaissance, and US Queer Modernism Benjamin Kahan; 3. Our Americas: Locating Modernisms, Dislocating Regionalisms and the Place of Cultures Eric Aronoff; 4. Green Modernism Joshua Schuster; 5. Modernism and the Middlebrow Faye Hammill; 6. 'The Accent of the Future': Ethnic American Modernism Catherine Morley; Part II. Forms, Genre, and Media; 7. New Visual Media Julian Murphet; 8. Midwestern Modernism and the Radio: Eliot, Hughes, Niedecker Tom McEnaney; 9. Modernist Writing and Painting John Fagg; 10. Modern Folk, Modernist Documentary Sonnet Retman; 11. Skyscraper Organizations: Architecture and US Literary Modernism Adrienne Brown; 12. The Jazz Age Jessica Teague; 13. Modernism's Deep Roots: the fin-de-siecle and the Transformation of the American Novel Guy Reynolds; 14. Modernizing the American Short Story Kasia Boddy; 15. Modernist American Long Poems Michael Kindellan; 16. The Modernist Lyric and its Discontents Linda Kinnahan; 17. Anthologies Jeremy Braddock; 18. Fragile Realism: American Drama in the Interwar Period Katherine Biers; 19. Post-WWII Theater and Media: Citation and Improvisation Shonni Enelow; 20. The Limits of an American Modernist Avant-Garde Lisa Siraganian; 21. Magazines Andrew Thacker; 22. The Modernist Presses Lise Jaillant; 23. Literary Criticism Ichiro Takayoshi; 24. Libertad Bajo Palabra: Surrealism in the Americas Jonathan P. Eburne; Part III. Situating US Modernism: A. Situating in History; 25. War Jonathan Vincent; 26. Modernism, Personality, and the Racialized State Matthew Stratton; 27. Modernism of the Streets: How the Left Made a Culture from Below Bill V. Mullen; 28. Late Modernism Greg Barnhisel; B. Situating in Geography; 29. Transnational Circuits and Homemade Machines: US Modernism in Europe Eric B. White; 30. The American Metropolis Nathaniel Cadle; 31. Hemispheric Modernisms, Imperial Modernisms: Modernism in the Americas Rachel Galvin; 32. Southern Modernism Jon Smith; 33. Transpacific Modernism Josephine Park; C. Situating in Movements and Communities; 34. Indigenous Modernism Melanie Benson Taylor; 35. Sketching the Terrain of African American Modernism Cherene Sherrard-Johnson; 36. The New Woman and American Modernism Alex Goody; 37. Celebrity and American Modernism: Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway Karen Leick.
About the author
Mark Whalan is Robert and Eve Horn Professor of English and Head of English at the University of Oregon. He has written several books on US modernism, including World War One, American Literature, and the Federal State (2018), American Culture in the 1910s (2010), The Great War and The Culture of the New Negro (2008) and The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919–1924 (2006), ed.
