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...Jeanne Campbell Reesman 14 Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s Jeanne Campbell Reesman This year appears to be the remaking of that most cosmopolitan of Americans, Gertrude Stein certainly for critics who have turned their attention to Stein s prose. (Her poetry is treated in chapter 17, Poetry: 1900...

...Catherine Calloway 15 Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s Catherine Calloway Scholarship on modern fiction continues to proliferate: more than two dozen of the writers covered in this chapter received book-length studies this year. The Beats are the most popular with five books, including three...

...Jerome Klinkowitz 16 Fiction: The 1960s to the Present Jerome Klinkowitz Since 1960 there has been more than one revolution in cultural form, with ever-increasing multiples of critical response. What first seemed an issue of personal freedom soon became a matter for intellect and theory, creating...

...Jeanne Campbell Reesman © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 14 Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s Jeanne Campbell Reesman Gertrude Stein and Jack London continued to attract steady and diversi- fied interest, and Mary Austin elicited unprecedented attention. ‘‘New’’ figures...

...Catherine Calloway © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 15 Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s Catherine Calloway The quantity of scholarship on modern fiction declined slightly this year. Only a dozen of the writers covered in this chapter receive book-length studies as compared...

...Jerome Klinkowitz © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 16 Fiction: The 1960s to the Present Jerome Klinkowitz Though no individual study mentions it, the end of the millennium coincides with several important long looks at fiction’s development within the contemporary...

...Donna M. Campbell Duke University Press 2002 14 Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s Donna M. Campbell Increasing recognition of the importance of W. E. B. Du Bois and continuing interest in issues of class and ethnicity in authors from Ger- trude Stein to Sinclair Lewis characterize...

...Catherine Calloway Duke University Press 2002 15 Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s Catherine Calloway Book-length studies proliferate this year. John Steinbeck and Robert Penn Warren are especially popular, with four books devoted to each, followed by Flannery O’Connor and Jack...

...Jerome Klinkowitz Duke University Press 2002 16 Fiction: The 1960s to the Present Jerome Klinkowitz Last Year Wendy Steiner’s long-awaited chapter on recent fiction for The Cambridge History of American Literature promised a new direction in scholarship that looked beyond...

...Donna M. Campbell Duke University Press 2003 14 Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s Donna M. Campbell Scholarship on W. E. B. Du Bois and writers of the Harlem Renaissance, especially Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, and Jessie Fauset, continues to ourish this year...

...Catherine Calloway Duke University Press 2003 15 Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s Catherine Calloway The phrase ‘‘a writer’s life’’ is especially applicable to this year’s schol- arship, with substantial biographies on Richard Wright, Carson Mc- Cullers, Peter...

...Jerome Klinkowitz Duke University Press 2003 16 Fiction: The 1960s to the Present Jerome Klinkowitz Once upon a time, scholars assumed there was one American Žction. Then other voices asserted themselves, from those of multiculturalist authors to critics with speciŽc...

...Donna M. Campbell Duke University Press 2004 14 Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s Donna M. Campbell New books on H. L. Mencken, Jack London, Winnifred Eaton, and W. E. B. Du Bois attest to strong interest in this era, as does work on a number of relatively unknown authors...

...Catherine Calloway Duke University Press 2004 15 Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s Catherine Calloway There are no major changes in direction in this year’s scholarship, al- though several previously overlooked writers achieve a more centralized location in the modernist arena...

...Jerome Klinkowitz Duke University Press 2004 16 Fiction: The 1960s to the Present Jerome Klinkowitz The study of contemporary American fiction has matured considerably since the days when anyone trained in an earlier period yet holding a subscription to the New York Review...

...Donna M. Campbell Duke University Press 2005 14 Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s Donna M. Campbell Substantial books or collections on Gertrude Stein, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Owen Wister, among others, make this a productive year, and nu- merous essays on Wallace Thurman...

...Catherine Calloway Duke University Press 2005 15 Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s Catherine Calloway Scholarship on the figures germane to this chapter is mostly devoted to proletarian and Southern writers. Ralph Ellison and Eudora Welty are the subjects of individual books...

...Jerome Klinkowitz Duke University Press 2005 16 Fiction: The 1960s to the Present Jerome Klinkowitz Reaching into its fifth decade, this chapter addressing developments in ‘‘contemporary’’ fiction now covers events of an adult lifetime. Writers whose fame and importance began...

...Donna M. Campbell Duke University Press 2006 14  Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s Donna M. Campbell Scholarship on fiction for this period holds a few surprises, such as a flurry of interest in John P. Marquand after years of critical silence. The trend toward a more varied...

...Donna M. Campbell Duke University Press 2008 13  Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s Donna M. Campbell The publication of first-rate biographies of Sherwood Anderson, Nella Larsen, and Upton Sinclair and of a number of biographical essays on other authors indicates that interest...