The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism

This new companion joins others from the same reputable stable, the Cambridge Companions series, and can be summed up by the phrase “uneven but informative”. Modernism is that critical response, among other things of literature and the arts, to social and cultural, technological and political change that took place between the later years of the nineteenth and the middle years of the twentieth centuries. The period covered by this companion is from the 1880s to just before World War Two, or, as its helpful chronology records, from the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890 to the publication of John Steinbeck's...