About the Author

Townsend Ludington is Boshamer Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directs the American Studies Curriculum.

Reviews

A sometimes acute sense of how one might understand 'the modern' in 'modernism' illuminates. ("Times Literary Supplement")

This collection of intellectually stimulating and provocative essays advances our understanding of modernism and its continuing impact on the arts in the United States. (Wendy Martin, Claremont Graduate University)