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• American prose literature -- 20th century
• American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• American prose literature -- History and criticism

• Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Jeanne Rosier Smith (HTML at UC Press)
• American non-fiction, 1900-1950 (Regnery, 1952), by May Brodbeck, Walter P. Metzger, and James Gray (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Writing of today : models of journalistic prose (The Century co., 1925), by John William Cunliffe and Gerhard Richard Lomer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Snatches from here and there (s.n., 1909), by Edith Searcy and Elizabeth Searcy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Qualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Mitchum Huehls (PDF at Ohio State)
• Where the World is Not: Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in Modern American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Kim Savelson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Margo Natalie Crawford (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by James C. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Sharon Stockton (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England, c2005), by John R. Eperjesi (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Carlo Rotella (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Sixteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism Since 1972 (followup volume to a 1974 survey; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Jackson R. Bryer, contrib. by Walter B. Rideout, James Leslie Woodress, Brom Weber, James L. W. West, Stuart Y. McDougal, Philip G. Cohen, David Krause, Karl F. Zender, Reginald Lansing Cook, John P. McWilliams, Bruce Stark, John Henry Raleigh, John J. Espey, Ellsworth Barnard, Warren G. French, Joseph N. Riddel, Linda Wagner-Martin, and Richard S. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• World Beats: Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, c2016), by Jimmy Fazzino
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-century U.S. Literature and Film (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Peter Caster (PDF at Ohio State)
• Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by David Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles Scruggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895-1941 (London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, c2018), by John Claborn
  • HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections
  • PDF at oapen.org
• A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), by Jaime Hovey (PDF at Ohio State)
• American and British Literature Since 1890 (New York and London: The Century Co., 1925), by Carl Van Doren and Mark Van Doren (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism, by Henry Seidel Canby (Gutenberg text)
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Henry Seidel Canby
  • multiple formats at archhive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Port of New York: Essays on Fourteen American Moderns (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1924), by Paul Rosenfeld, illust. by Alfred Stieglitz, Alice Boughton, Paul Strand, and Dana Desboro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1996), by Fred L. Gardaphé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary Modernism and the Transformation of the Work (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1988), by James F. Knapp (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• A History of American Literature Since 1870 (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., c1915), by Fred Lewis Pattee
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Literature and Reality (New York: International Publishers, c1950), by Howard Fast (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kentucky literature; a retrospective glance across half a century, 1900-1950. (Roberts Print. Co., 1956), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust)
• American writers of the present day, 1890 to 1920 (G. Wahr, 1920), by Thomas Ernest Rankin (page images at HathiTrust)
• American authorship of the present-day (since 1890) (G. Wahr, 1918), by Thomas Ernest Rankin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strangers to this ground; cultural diversity in contemporary American writing (Southern Methodist University Press, 1961), by W. M. Frohock (page images at HathiTrust)
• When winter comes to Main Street (George H. Doran Company, 1922), by Grant M. Overton, George H. Doran Company, and Firm Doran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Definitions; essays in contemporary criticism (Second series) (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1924), by Henry Seidel Canby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Definitions; essays in contemporary criticism (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922), by Henry Seidel Canby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern American literature. (F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1960), by Dorothy Nyren Curley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The time of the Dial (Syracuse University Press, 1963), by William Wasserstrom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spokesmen, modern writers and American life. (D. Appleton, 1928), by T. K. Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
• The outlook for American prose (The University of Chicago press, 1926), by Joseph Warren Beach (page images at HathiTrust)
• The glory that was Grub street; impressions of contemporary authors. (S. Low, Marston & co., ltd., 1928), by Arthur St. John Adcock and E. O. Hoppé (page images at HathiTrust)
• The literary revolution (Frank-Maurice, inc., 1927), by Stanton A. Coblentz (page images at HathiTrust)
• American nights entertainment (D. Appleton & Co. [etc.], 1923), by Grant M. Overton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cargoes for Crusoes (D. Appleton & company :, 1924), by Grant M. Overton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The main stream. (C. Scribner's sons, 1927), by Stuart Pratt Sherman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The strange necessity; essays by Rebecca West. (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928), by Rebecca West (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forgotten frontiers; Dreiser and the land of the free (H. Smith and R. Haas, 1932), by Dorothy Dudley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appraisements and asperities as to some contemporary writers (J. B. Lippincott Company, 1922), by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Definitions; essays in contemporary criticism (Jonathan Cape, ltd, 1925), by Henry Seidel Canby (page images at HathiTrust)
• American and British literature since 1890. (The Century co., 1925), by Carl Van Doren and Mark Van Doren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some contemporary Americans : the personal equation in literature. (University of Chicago, 1924), by Percy Holmes Boynton (page images at HathiTrust)
• American estimates (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1929), by Henry Seidel Canby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The literary fallacy. (Little, Brown and Company, 1944), by Bernard Augustine De Voto (page images at HathiTrust)
• The literary spotlight (G.H. Doran, 1924), by John Chipman Farrar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Midwest portraits : a book of memories and friendships. (Harcourt, Brace, 1923), by Harry Hansen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixteen authors to one (Lewis Copeland, 1928), by David Karsner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemporary American literature and religion (Willett, Clark, 1934), by Halford Edward Luccock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panorama de la littérature américaine contemporaine. (Kra, 1928), by Régis Michaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Destinations; a canvass of American literature since 1900 (J.H. Sears & company, inc., 1928), by Gorham B Munson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature since 1870 (The Century co., 1915), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The literary renaissance in America (W. Heinemann, 1923), by C. E. Bechhofer Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Money writes! (A. & C. Boni, 1927), by Upton Sinclair and John Beardsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemporary American authors, J.C. Squire and associated critics of the London mercury (H. Holt and company, 1928), by John Collings Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Many minds (Knopf, 1924), by Carl Van Doren (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dance of the machines; the American short story and the industrial age. (Macaulay, 1929), by Edward J. O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• More contemporary Americans. (The University of Chicago press, 1927), by Percy Holmes Boynton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new regionalism in American literature (University of Washington book store, 1930), by Carey McWilliams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemporary American authors: a critical survey and 219 bio-bibliographies (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1913), by Fred B. Millett, Edith Rickert, and John Matthews Manly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new American literature, 1890-1930 (The Century co., 1930), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new American literature, 1890-1930 (D. Appleton-Century company, incorporated, 1937), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spokesmen. (University of California Press, 1928), by Thomas King Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
• All my relatives : community in contemporary ethnic American literatures (University of Michigan Press, 1993), by Bonnie TuSmith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits: real and imaginary; being memories and impressions of friends and contemporaries; with appreciations of divers singularities and characteristics of certain phases of life and letters among the North Americans as seen, heard and divined (George H. Doran Company, 1924), by Ernest A. Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vanishing moments : class and American literature (University of Michigan Press, 2006), by Eric Schocket (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young idea : an anthology of opinion concerning the spirit and aims of contemporary American literature (Duffield and Company, 1917), by Lloyd R. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some modern authors (Dodd, Mead and company, 1923), by S. P. B. Mais (page images at HathiTrust)
• Figures américaines : dix-huit études sur des écrivains de ce temps (Attinger, 1929), by André Levinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The glory that was Grub Street; impressions of contemporary authors (Stokes, 1928), by Arthur St. John Adcock, Rebecca West, Mary Webb, H. M. Tomlinson, Alfred Tresidder Sheppard, C. A. Dawson Scott, Rafael Sabatini, W. Pett Ridge, Edwin Pugh, Frederick Niven, Christopher Morley, Archibald Marshall, Arthur Machen, Robert Lynd, Stephen Leacock, Storm Jameson, Jerome K. Jerome, W. W. Jacobs, Aldous Huxley, Violet Hunt, A. E. Housman, Robert Hichens, Ian Hay, Joseph Hergesheimer, Edmund Gosse, St. John G. Ervine, Theodore Dreiser, Clemence Dane, G. K. Chesterton, Thomas Burke, Bernard Shaw, and E. O. Hoppé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moderna amerikaner (H. Geber, 1925), by Ruben Gustafsson Berg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Syllabus of a course of lectures on California literature and its spirit (Arroyo Guild Press, 1909), by George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bookman's daybook (H. Liveright., 1929), by Burton Rascoe and C. Hartley Grattan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters on contemporary American authors (The Four seas company, 1921), by Samuel W. Tait (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young idea; an anthology of opinion concerning the spirit and aims of contemporary American literature (Duffield and Company, 1917), by Lloyd R. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Destinations; a canvass of American literature since 1900. (AMS Press, 1970), by Gorham Bert Munson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature since 1870 (The Century Co., 1921), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature since 1870 (The Century co., 1915), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The literature of the middle western frontier. (Harcourt, Brace, 1923), by Harry Hansen (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature since 1870 (The Century co., 1915), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature since 1870 (The Century co., 1917), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in contemporary criticism (J. Cape, 1922), by Henry Seidel Canby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some modern authors (G. Richards, 1923), by S. P. B. Mais (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixteen authors to one (Lewis Copeland, 1928), by David Karsner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The literary spotlight, with a pref. by John Farrar; with portrait caricatures by William Gropper. (G.H. Doran, 1924), by John Chipman Farrar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young idea; an anthology of opinion concerning the spirit and aims of contemporary American literature (Duffield and company, 1917), by Lloyd R. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shandygaff : a number of most agreeable inquirendoes upon life and letters, interspersed with short stories and skitts ... (Doubleday, Page, 1918), by Christopher Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lady of the regency. (Hutchinson, 1900), by Maud Stepney Rawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay reviews (The Lowell press, 1929), by Schuyler Ashley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recent American literature (Littlefield, Adams, 1961), by Mary Elizabeth Burtis and Paul Spencer Wood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Panorama de la littératuure américaine contemporaine (Kra, 1928), by Régis Michaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American nights entertainment, by Grant M. Overton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cargoes for Crusoes, by Grant M. Overton (Gutenberg ebook)
• When Winter Comes to Main Street, by Grant M. Overton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition (Ohio State University Press, 2017), ed. by Sheila Murnaghan and Ralph Rosen (JSTOR ebook)

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