'Whalan's well-researched and wide-ranging study is a valuable contribution to revisionary modernist studies.' John Carlos Rowe, American Literary History
Acknowledgements; Credits; Introduction; 1. Freeloading in hobohemia: antimodernism, free verse, and the state in American World War One periodical culture; 2. Letters from a soldier: wartime letters and states of intimacy; 3. The regional novel and the wartime state; 4. USA., World War One, and the petromodern state; 5. Fictions of rehabilititation; Conclusion; Notes.