The Cambridge History of American Literature Volume 6: Prose Writing, 1910–1950

• Frontmatter
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• pp. i-xii

• Introduction
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• pp. xiii-xx

• A Cultural History of the Modern American Novel: Introduction by David Minter
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• pp. 1-9

1 - A Dream City, Lyric Years, and a Great War

• 1 - The Novel as Ironic Reflection
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• pp. 10-14

• 2 - Confidence and Uncertainty in The Portrait of A Lady
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• pp. 15-22

• 3 - Lines of Expansion
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• pp. 23-33

• 4 - Four Contemporaries and the Closing of the West
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• pp. 34-36

• 5 - Chicago’s “Dream City”
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• pp. 37-42

• 6 - Frederick Jackson Turner in The Dream City
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• pp. 43-47

• 7 - Henry Adams’s Education and The Grammar of Progress
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• pp. 48-56

• 8 - Jack London’s Career and Popular Discourse
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• pp. 57-62

• 9 - Innocence and Revolt in the “Lyric Years”: 1900–1916
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• pp. 63-70

• 10 - The Armory show of 1913 and the Decline of Innocence
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• pp. 71-76

• 11 - The Play of Hope and Despair
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• pp. 77-88

• 12 - The Great War and The Fate of Writing
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• pp. 89-101

2 - Fiction in a Tme of Plenty

• 1 - When the War Was Over: the Return of Detachment
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• pp. 102-107

• 2 - The “Jazz Age” and the “Lost Generation” Revisited
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• pp. 108-124

• 3 - The Perils of Plenty, or How The Twenties Acquired a Paranoid Tilt
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• pp. 125-133

• 4 - Disenchantment, Flight, and The Rise of Professionalism in an Age of Plenty
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• pp. 134-141

• 5 - Class, Power, and Violence in a New Age
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• pp. 142-150

• 6 - The Fear of Feminization and The Logic of Modest Ambition
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• pp. 151-159

• 7 - Marginality and Authority / Race, Gender, and Region
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• pp. 160-169

• 8 - War as Metaphor: The Example of Ernest Hemingway
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• pp. 170-183

3 - The Fate of Writing During the Great Depression

• 1 - The Discovery of Poverty and the Return of Commitment
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• pp. 184-189

• 2 - The Search for “Culture” as a Form of Commitment
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• pp. 190-199

• 3 - Three Responses: The Examples of Henry Miller, Djuna Barnes, and John Dos Passos
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• pp. 200-207

• 4 - Residual Individualism and Hedged Commitments
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• pp. 208-224

• 5 - The Search for Shared Purpose: Struggles on the Left
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• pp. 225-240

• 6 - Documentary Literature and The Disarming of Dissent
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• pp. 241-249

• 7 - The Southern Renaissance: Forms of Reaction and Innovation
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• pp. 250-265

• 8 - History and Novels / Novels and History: The Example of William Faulkner
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• pp. 266-282

Fictions of the Harlem Renaissance

• 1 - A New Negro? by Rafia Zafar
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• pp. 283-288

• 2 - Black Manhattan
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• pp. 289-294

• 3 - Avatars and Manifestos
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• pp. 295-305

• 4 - Harlem as A State of Mind: Hughes, McKay, Toomer
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• pp. 306-316

• 5 - A New Negro, A New Woman: Larsen, Fauset, Bonner
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• pp. 317-325

• 6 - “Dark - Skinned Selves Without Fear or Shame”: Thurman and Nugent
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• pp. 326-331

• 7 - Genre in The Renaissance: Fisher, Schuyler, Cullen, White, Bontemps
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• pp. 332-339

• 8 - Southern Daughter, Native Son: Hurston and Wright
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• pp. 340-347

• 9 - Black Modernism
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• pp. 348-352

Ethnic Modernism

• Introduction by Werner Sollors
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• pp. 353-367

• 1 - Gertrude Stein and “Negro Sunshine”
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• pp. 368-383

• 2 - Ethnic Lives and “Lifelets”
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• pp. 384-404

• 3 - Ethnic Themes, Modern Themes
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• pp. 405-410

• 4 - Mary Antin: Progressive Optimism against The Odds
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• pp. 411-421

• 5 - Who is “American”?
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• pp. 422-427

• 6 - American Languages
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• pp. 428-433

• 7 - “All the Past We Leave Behind”? Ole E. Rölvaag and the Immigrant Trilogy
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• pp. 434-441

• 8 - Modernism, Ethnic Labeling, and The Quest for Wholeness: Jean Toomer’s New American Race
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• pp. 442-451

• 9 - Freud, Marx, Hard-Boiled
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• pp. 452-464

• 10 - Hemingway Spoken Here
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• pp. 465-474

• 11 - Henry Roth: Ethnicity, Modernity, and Modernism
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• pp. 475-489

• 12 - The Clock, The Salesman, and the Breast
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• pp. 490-511

• 13 - Was Modernism Antitotalitarian?
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• pp. 512-538

• 14 - Facing the Extreme
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• pp. 539-551

• 15 - Grand Central Terminal
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• pp. 552-556

• Chronology
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• pp. 557-596

• Bibliography
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• pp. 597-604

• Index
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• pp. 605-620