Introduction: The 1920s --
Beyond the Wasteland: T.S. Eliot and the postwar world --
Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald: friendship and rivalry --
William Faulkner: a Southern voice in the age of modernism --
Modernism and popular culture in the age of Ezra Pound and James Joyce --
Midwestern vision and values: Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather --
Sounds of the city: Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, Anzia Yezierska, Langston Hughes --
History and mythmakers: Edith Wharton, William Carlos Williams, Stephen Vincent Benet, John Steinbeck.