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A comprehensive reference guide to the modernist movement in American literature, this volume provides a wealth of information on American modernism, the Lost Generation, modernism in the American novel, the Harlem Renaissance, modernism in poetry and drama, and the literary culture of the Moderns. Topics include: Surrealism, expressionism, and Freudian symbolism The Harlem Renaissance Modernism in the American novel, poetry, and theater The Lost Generation and more. Writers covered include: e.e. cummings W.E.B. Du Bois T.S. Eliot William Faulkner F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston James Joyce H.L. Mencken Marianne Moore Eugene O'Neill Ezra Pound Gertrude Stein John Steinbeck William Carlos Williams Richard Wright and many others.