{"product_id":"9781405133678","title":"A Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900 - 1950","description":"\u003ch3\u003eConcise Companions to Literature and Culture\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eA Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900 - 1950\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePeter Stoneley | Cindy Weinstein\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ American \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn authoritative guide to American literature, this \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e examines the experimental forms, socio-cultural changes, literary movements, and major authors of the early 20th century. This \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e provides authoritative and wide-ranging guidance on early twentieth-century American fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders commonly studied authors such as Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, alongside key texts of the period by Richard Wright, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, and Anzia Yezierska\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines how the works of these diverse writers have been interpreted in their own day and how current readings have expanded our understanding of their cultural and literary significance\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers a broad range of topics, including the First and Second World Wars, literary language differences, author celebrity, the urban landscape, modernism, the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, regionalism, and African-American fiction\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGives students the contextual information necessary for formulating their own critiques of classic American fiction\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePeter Stoneley\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English in the School of English and American Literature at the University of Reading. He is author of \u003ci\u003eMark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic\u003c\/i\u003e (1992), \u003ci\u003eConsumerism and American Girls’ Literature, 1860–1940\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), and \u003ci\u003eA Queer History of the Ballet\u003c\/i\u003e (2006). \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCindy Weinstein\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at the California Institute of Technology. She is author of \u003ci\u003eFamily, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eThe Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature: Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe\u003c\/i\u003e (2004).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11 February 2008\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley-Blackwell\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781405133678\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e328\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e21.44\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44310601465996,"sku":"9781405133678","price":38.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781405133678.jpg?v=1780166109","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781405133678","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}