This Concise Companion 0ffers an authoritative overview ofAmerican fiction from 1906-1950，focusing on the literature that developed out of the social，cultural，and politicai changes which occurred in the first part of the twentieth century．

Florence Dore，Michael A．Elliott，Mary Esteve，Jennifer L．Fleissner,Keith Gandal，Loren Glass，Donald E．Hard~Jennifer A．Hughes，Gene Andrew Jarrett，Kathryn R·Kent，John Carlos Rowe，David Schmid，Paul Simpson，Peter Stoneley,Michael Szalay,Alan Wald，Cindy Weinstein．

Notes on Contributors

Chronology

Acknowled fments

Introduction

1 Turning the Century

 Michael A．Elliott and Jennifer A Hughes

2 Women and Modernity

 Jennifer L．Fleissner

3 Queer Modernity and Lesbian Representation

 Kathryn R．Kent

4 Markets and“Gatekeepers”

 Loren GlaSS

5 Manhood，Modernity，and Crime FictiOn

 David Schmid

6 American Sentences：Terms，Topics，and Techniaues

 in Stylistic Analysis 

 Paul Simpson and Donald E．Hardy

7 ThP Great Gatsby as Mobilization Fiction：Rethinking

 Modernist Prose

 Keith Gandaf

8 Modernism’S History of the Dead

 Michael Szalay

9 The Radical 1930s

 Alan M．Wald

10 Racial Uplift and the Politics of African American Fiction

 Gene Andrew Jarrett

11 The Modernism of Southem Literature

 Florence Dore

12 Cosmopolis

 Mary Esteve

13 Other Modernisms

 John Carlos Rowe

Index