The Cambridge History of American Literature addresses the broad spectrum of new and established directions in all branches of American writing and includes the work of scholars and critics who have shaped, and who continue to shape, what has become a major area of literary scholarship. The authors span three decades of achievement in American literary criticism, thereby speaking for the continuities as well as the disruptions sustained between generations of scholarship. Generously proportioned narratives allow at once for a broader vision and sweep of American literary history than has been possible previously, and while the voice of traditional criticism forms a background for these narratives, it joins forces with the diversity of interests that characterize contemporary literary studies.This book is 《VOLUME 6 PROSE WRITING 1910-1950》

The Cambridge History of American Literature addresses the broad spectrum of new and established directions in all branches of American writing and includes the work of scholars and critics who have shaped, and who continue to shape, what has become a major area of literary scholarship. The authors span three decades of achievement in American literary criticism, thereby speaking for the continuities as well as the disruptions sustained between generations of scholarship. Generously proportioned narratives allow at once for a broader vision and sweep of American literary history than has been possible previously, and while the voice of traditional criticism forms a background for these narratives, it joins forces with the diversity of interests that characterize contemporary literary studies.

The History offers wide-ranging,interdisciplinary accounts of American genres and periods. Generated partly by the recent unearthing of previously neglected texts, the expansion of material in American literature coincides with a dramatic increase in the number and variety of approaches to that material. The multifaceted scholarly and critical enterprise embodied in The Cambridge History of American Literature addresses these multiplicities - the social,the cultural, the intellectual, and the aesthetic - and demonstrates a richer concept of authority in literary studies than is found in earlier accounts.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN AMERICAN NOVEL

 David Minter, Rice University

Introduction

1 A Dream City, Lyric Years, and a Great War

1. The Novel as Ironic Reflection

2. Confidence and Uncertainty in The Portrait of a Lady

3. Lines of Expansion

4. Four Contemporaries and the Closing of the West

5. Chicago's "Dream City"

6. Frederick Jackson Turner in the Dream City

7. Henry Adams's Education and the Grammar of Progress

8. Jack London's Career and Popular Discourse

9. Innocence and Revolt in the "Lyric Years": 19oo-1916

10. The Armory Show of 1913 and the Decline of Innocence

11. The Play of Hope and Despair

12. The Great War and the Fate of Writing

2 Fiction in a Time of Plenty

1. When the War Was Over: the Return of Detachment

2. The "Jazz Age" and the "Lost Generation" Revisited

3. The Perils of Plenty, or How the Twenties Acquired a Paranoid Tilt

4. Disenchantment, Flight, and the Rise of Professionalism in an Age of Plenty

5. Class, Power, and Violence in a New Age

6. The Fear of Feminization and the Logic of Modest Ambition

7. Marginality and Authority / Race, Gender, and Region

8. War as Metaphor: the Example of Ernest Hemingway

3 The Fate of Writing During the Great Depression

1. The Discovery of Poverty and the Return of Commitment

2. The Search for "Culture" as a Form of Commitment

3. Three Responses: the Examples of Henry Miller, Djuna Barnes, and John Dos Passos

4. Residual Individualism and Hedged Commitments

5. The Search for Shared Purpose: Struggles on the Left

6. Documentary Literature and the Disarming of Dissent

7. The Southern Renaissance: Forms of Reaction and Innovation

8. History and Novels / Novels and History: the Example of William Faulkner

FICTIONS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

 Rafia Zafar, Washington University in St. Louis

1. A New Negro?

2. Black Manhattan

3. Avatars and Manifestos

4. Harlem as a State of Mind: Hughes, McKay, Toomer

5. A New Negro, A New Woman: Larsen, Fauset, Bonner

6. "Dark-skinned Selves without Fear or Shame": Thurman and Nugent

7. Genre in the Renaissance: Fisher, Schuyler, Cullen, White, Bontemps

8. Southern Daughter, Native Son: Hurston and Wright

9. Black Modernism

ETHNIC MODERNISM

Werner Sollors, Harvard University

Introduction

1. Gertrude Stein and "Negro Sunshine"

2. Ethnic Lives and "Lifelets"

3. Ethnic Themes, Modern Themes

4. Mary Antin: Progressive Optimism against the Odds

5. Who is "American"?

6. American Languages

7. "All the Past We Leave Behind"? Ole E. Rolvaag and the Immigrant Trilogy

8. Modernism, Ethnic Labeling, and the Quest for Wholeness: Jean Toomer's New American Race

9. Freud, Marx, Hard-boiled

10. Hemingway Spoken Here

11. Henry Roth: Ethnicity, Modernity, and Modernism

12. The Clock, the Salesman and the Breast

13. Was Modernism Antitotalitarian?

14. Facing the Extreme

15. Grand Central Terminal

Chronology

Bibliography

Index