The Cambridge History of American Modernism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108477673)

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.

Author: Mark Whalan
ISBN-10: 1108477674
ISBN-13: 9781108477673
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/20/2023
Pages: 700
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.06w x 1.97d