The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel offers a comprehensive analysis of U.S. modernism as part of a wider global literature. Both modernist and American literary studies have been reshaped by waves of scholarship that unsettled prior consensuses regarding America''s relation to transnational diasporic and indigenous identities and aesthetics; the role of visual and musical arts in narrative experimentation; science and technology studies; and allegiances across racial ethnic gendered and sexual social groups. Recent writing on U.S. immigration imperialism and territorial expansion has generated fresh and exciting reasons to read or reread modernist novelists both prominent and forgotten. Written by a host of leading scholars this Companion provides unique interpretations and approaches to modernist themes techniques and texts.