...Sally E. Parry 14  Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s Sally E. Parry There continues to be significant scholarship on some of the major figures in the first part of the 20th century, especially high modernists Gertrude Stein and Djuna Barnes, and authors of the Harlem Renais- sance...

...Catherine Calloway 15  Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s Catherine Calloway As in previous years, modern fiction writers continue to generate much critical debate. Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Eudora Welty, and Vladimir Nabokov are the subjects of book-length studies. Welty...

...Jerome Klinkowitz 16  Fiction: The 1960s to the Present Jerome Klinkowitz A decade and a half into the 21st century, everyone knows that forces abound. Often contrary, but sometimes in league for even more pow- erful effect, they raise the level of discourse to heights that provide...

...Catherine Calloway American Literary Scholarship (2018) doi 10.1215/00659142-8225427 © 2020 by Duke University Press 14 Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s Catherine Calloway This year s scholarship continues to focus on the usual canonical writ- ers rather than lesser-known figures or neglected texts...

...Sally E. Parry © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 American Literary Scholarship (2018) doi 10.1215/00659142-8118566 © 2020 by Duke University Press 13 Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s Sally E. Parry Since the centennial of World War I there has been increasing scholarly attention to both...

...Jeffrey J. Williams; Robert Kilpatrick © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 American Literary Scholarship (2018) doi 10.1215/00659142-8118594 © 2020 by Duke University Press 16 Fiction: The 1980s to the Present Jeffrey J. Williams and Robert Kilpatrick One of the central questions animating...

...Bill Solomon © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 American Literary Scholarship (2018) doi 10.1215/00659142-8118580 © 2020 by Duke University Press 15 Fiction: The 1960s to the 1980s Bill Solomon Without a doubt the distinguishing trait of the study of American fiction today is the widespread...

...Bill Solomon Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Fiction: e s to the s Bill Solomon e study of American ction in the second half of the th century remains focused on social issues of considerable importance in . U.S. involvement in neocolonialism and related Cold War military ventures...

...Sally E. Parry Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Fiction: to the s Sally E. Parry A growing trend in scholarship is to examine texts from disciplin- ary/theoretical perspectives that at rst might seem unusual but nev- ertheless provide new layers of understanding for example...

...Catherine Calloway Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Fiction: e s to the s Catherine Calloway Modernists are well represented this year in both book-length studies and individual essays. Collections of the letters of Ralph Ellison and Flannery O Connor and the interviews of Robert...

...Jeffrey J. Williams; Robert Kilpatrick Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Fiction: e s to the Present Je rey J. Williams and Robert Kilpatrick Contemporary ction has become one of the most active elds in literary studies. Writers who forged a postmodern sensibility or style...

...Donna M. Campbell Duke University Press 2009 14  Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s Donna M. Campbell In addition to perennial topics of interest such as race, modernism, and queer studies, work on fiction from 1900 to the 1930s increasingly extends the designation American...

...Catherine Calloway Duke University Press 2009 15  Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s Catherine Calloway Proletarian and Southern authors again attract the most attention of scholars in this field this year, while work on Easterners, Westerners, and science and detective...

...Jerome Klinkowitz Duke University Press 2009 16  Fiction: The 1960s to the Present Jerome Klinkowitz American fiction since the 1960s has been tasked with telling the story of a culture in transition. Whether it be the new styles of diplomacy and warfare bracketed...