A Companion to Twentieth‐Century United States Fiction

A Companion to Twentieth‐Century United States Fiction is the 64th volume in the well‐established Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series. Edited by David Seed, Professor of American Literature at the University of Liverpool, it features over 50 contributions from mostly professors of American literature, English, fiction and American studies from around the world. This is a reference work aimed at students of “modern” American literature and fiction, covering a diverse range of subjects and writers. In the brief introductory essay, the editor writes of the difficulty in defining the “national epithet” American. There is a brief discussion on...