Books in the American Literature in Transition series

American Literature in Transition, 1930-1940 situates the major themes and aspects of the Depression era's key literary activities in the long arc of literary history. This is an excellent resource for undergraduate, graduate students, and scholars interested in American literary culture of the 1930s.

The book is for scholars and students of contemporary American literature who want to think beyond the narrower scope of the single-author or single-theoretical-perspective study to get a richer sense of a key decade's literary activity.

This book considers the birth of modern American literature through fresh interpretations of authors including Frost, Cather, Stein, and Wharton. Yet the volume construes 'literature' variously, leading to explorations of jazz, film, and political writing. Topics such as the color line, eugenics, Indian country, revolution, and war facilitate exploration of both continuity and change.

This book is for students and scholars of late twentieth-century American literature. This volume argues for the importance of 1980s American literature and its centrality in understanding trends and trajectories in contemporary literature. It serves as both an introduction and a deep consideration of the literary culture of our most maligned decade.

This is an excellent resource for undergraduate and graduate students interested in American literary culture of the 1920s. Preeminent scholars of the field analyze over twenty aspects of the era's key literary activities. The book's unusually capacious framework encompasses not only canonical authors but also a great number of neglected writers.

American Literature in Transition, 1950-1960 explores the under-recognized complexity and variety of 1950s literature by focalizing discussions through a series of keywords and formats that encourage readers to draw fresh connections among literary form and the theories, institutions, cultures, and social phenomena.

This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of fields to provide crucial contexts for interpreting the literature of the 1940s. Essays from scholars in literature, history, art history, ethnic studies, and American studies show how writers intervened in the global struggles of the decade.

Crafted for general readers, students, and scholars alike, this volume charts recent transformations in American literature. It covers a wide range of topics - from genre fiction and the rise of Amazon to the literature of 9/11 and the prominence of digital technology in literary culture.

This book is for devotees of the 1970s, which has to date celebrated the decade's music, fashion, and film. For the first time, it takes a comprehensive look at the literary developments of the decade, assessing writers as diverse as Toni Morrison, Erica Jong, and Philip Roth.

This book provides the latest scholarship on the 1960s as seen through the eyes of writers as various as Toni Morrison, Gary Snyder, Michael Herr, Amiri Baraka, Joan Didion, Louis Chu, John Rechy, and Gwendolyn Brooks. It will be a key resource for students and scholars of twentieth-century American literature interested in this time period.