Networks of modernism : reorganizing American narrative / by Wesley Beal.

Introduction: Networks and the cultural logic of modernism
In lieu of a manifesto: Randolph Bourne's "trans-national America" as an origin of network aesthetics
Network form as network politics in Jean Toomer's Cane
Public spaces and distributed settings in Anita Loos's Gentlemen prefer blondes
Schisms: form and content, space and history in John Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy
Nathanael West's crowds and the closure of modern network aesthetics.