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Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s

Substantial books or collections on Gertrude Stein, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Owen Wister, among others, make this a productive year, and numerous essays on Wallace Thurman and Claude McKay attest to continuing interest in the critical study of a gay Harlem Renaissance. Other essays emphasize publicity and the context of publication as authors seek to control the circulation of their ideas in the marketplace. Perhaps most noteworthy is the emphasis on lesser-known popular authors (Opal Whiteley, Anita Loos) or critically neglected issues in the works of betterknown ones, such as essays that discuss race instead of class in Sinclair Lewis, celebrity instead of heredity in Jack London, fictions of the body instead of primitivism in Jean Toomer, and codes of manners instead of passing in Jessie Fauset. Although certain critical judgments about the authors recur—all the work on Stein, for example, discusses her use of repetition and indeterminacy—a broader variety of approaches and texts discussed characterizes this year’s work.