Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism (Paperback)

1. Modernist writers and the ethos of professionalism; 2. Fiction from a newspaperised world: Henry James's The Reverberator; 3. The newspaperman kicked out: The Sacred Fount and literary authority; 4. The plots of murder: un/original stories in Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy; 5. Reading John Dos Passos: reading mass culture in the USA; 6. Miss Lonelyhearts: Nathanael West's comic-strip novel; 7. Making the usual kind of sense: Hollywood, West and the critics in The Day of the Locust; Notes; Reference List; Index.