Puzzling Modernism in Twentieth-Century Literature

Blending close reading with cultural history, Puzzling Modernism offers a nuanced view of American literary history from a time, not unlike our own, in which nativism, intolerance, and fear were endemic.

Laura Lorhan is an independent scholar, who earned her doctoral degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of ＂May Howard Jackson and the Development of Jean Toomer’s Multiracial Modernism＂ in Twentieth-Century Literature (June 2023) and ＂Turning the Tables on ’Bluebeard’ Intertextuality in Helen Oyeyemi’s Mr. Fox＂ (forthcoming).