The Cambridge History of American Modernism

Bringing together multiple new scholarly approaches, this is the most comprehensive essay collection on US literary modernism to date.

Covering key forms, media, locations, individuals, and communities, this book addresses both familiar topics and emergent scholarship. Seeing US modernism as fundamentally multiracial, both national and transnational, and steeped in the markets of new mass media, this will be the benchmark volume on US literary modernism for years to come.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.