American Modernism, 1914-1945 (Research Guide to American Literature)

Cover......Page 1 Research Guide to American Literature: American Modernism, 1914–1945......Page 4 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 11 Contributors......Page 12 Series Introduction......Page 14 Part I: Overview......Page 16 Boundaries of the Period......Page 18 Dominant Genres and Literary Forms......Page 21 Historical and Social Context......Page 26 Literary Influences......Page 32 Evolution of Critical Opinion......Page 35 Part II: Study Guides on General Topics......Page 40 African American Literature and the Harlem Renaissance......Page 42 “The Essence of a Continent”: The Lyricists of Tin Pan Alley......Page 51 Family Stories and the Stratemeyer Syndicate......Page 58 The Great Depression and Proletarian Literature......Page 65 The Hard-Boiled Detective and the Pulps......Page 74 Modernism and the Changing American Vision......Page 79 The New Deal and Writers: American Guides and Living Newspapers......Page 87 On Trial: American Justice and “A Good Shoemaker and a Poor Fish-Peddler”......Page 93 “That Ain’t the Way the Chinese Behave”: American Identity and the Literature of Place......Page 100 Writing for Money: The Saturday Evening Post and the Literary Marketplace......Page 110 Part III: Study Guides on Works and Writers......Page 116 Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio......Page 118 Willa Cather, My Ántonia......Page 123 John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer......Page 128 T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land......Page 133 William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury......Page 139 William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying......Page 146 F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby......Page 150 F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night......Page 157 Robert Frost, North of Boston......Page 163 Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon......Page 168 Lillian Hellman, The Children’s Hour......Page 173 Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises......Page 177 Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms......Page 183 Langston Hughes, The Ways of White Folks......Page 187 Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God......Page 192 Ring Lardner, How to Write Short Stories [with Samples]......Page 197 Sinclair Lewis, Main Street......Page 202 John O’Hara, Appointment in Samarra......Page 208 Eugene O’Neill, Desire Under the Elms......Page 213 Katherine Anne Porter, The Miranda Cycle......Page 219 John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men......Page 224 John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath......Page 230 Wallace Stevens, Harmonium......Page 234 Jean Toomer, Cane......Page 241 Eudora Welty, A Curtain of Green......Page 247 Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust......Page 253 Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence......Page 258 Thornton Wilder, Our Town......Page 263 Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie......Page 268 William Carlos Williams, Collected Poems, 1921–1931......Page 274 Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel......Page 280 Richard Wright, Native Son......Page 286 Part IV: Annotated Bib liog raphy......Page 292 Part V: Glossary......Page 298 Index......Page 302 Volume 1: colonial literature, 1607-1776 / Benjamin Franklin V Volume 2: early American literature, 1776-1820 / Angela Vietto Volume 3: romanticism and transcendentalism, 1820-1865 / Robert D. Habich Volume 4: realism and regionalism, 1865-1914 / Thomas Quirk and Gary F. Scharnhorst Volume 5: American modernism, 1914-1945 / George Parker Anderson Volume 6: postwar literature, 1945-1970 / John Cusatis Volume 7: contemporary literature, 1970 to present / Linda Trinh Moser and Kathryn West. American Modernism: 1914-1945 covers American literature during the time of war and Depression in the first half of the 20th century. This new research guide brings this important literary period to life, providing students with strategies for studying and writing. A series of handbooks provides strategies for studying and writing about frequently taught literary topics, with each volume offering study guides, background information, suggestions for areas of research, and a list of secondary sources Presents studying and writing strategies and angles for studying American literature from 1914-1945, covering topics such as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance, and John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath."