The Cambridge companion to American novelists /

This Companion examines the full range and vigor of the American novel. From the American exceptionalism of James Fenimore Cooper to the apocalyptic post-Americanism of Cormac McCarthy, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics chronicle the major aesthetic innovations that h...

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Other Authors: Parrish, Timothy, 1964- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Series:Cambridge companions to topics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / byTimothy Parrish
  • 1. James Fenimore Cooper / Stephen Railton
  • 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne/ Robert Milder
  • 3. Herman Melville / Clark Davis
  • 4. Harriet Beecher Stowe / Arthur Riss
  • 5. Mark Twain / Peter Messent
  • 6. Henry James / Thomas J. Otten
  • 7. Edith Wharton / Pamela Knights
  • 8. Theodore Dreiser / Clare Eby
  • 9. Willa Cather / Timothy Parrish
  • 10. F. Scott Fitzgerald / Ruth Prigozy
  • 11. Ernest Hemingway / Eugene Goodheart
  • 12. William Faulkner / Philip Weinstein
  • 13. Henry Roth / Hana Wirth-Nesher
  • 14. Djuna Barnes / Alex Goody
  • 15. Zora Neale Hurston / Lovalerie King
  • 16. Richard Wright / William Dow
  • 17. Raymond Chandler / Leonard Cassuto
  • 18. Ralph Ellison / David Yaffe
  • 19. J.D. Salinger / Sarah Graham
  • 20. Patricia Highsmith / Joan Schenkar
  • 21. Vladimir Nabokov / Julian W. Connoly
  • 22. Jack Kerouac / Joshua Kupetz
  • 23. Saul Bellow / Victoria Aarons
  • 24. Kurt Vonnegut / Todd Davis
  • 25. John Updike / James Schiff
  • 26. Thomas Pynchon / David Seed
  • 27. Toni Morrison / Valerie Smith
  • 28. Philip Roth / Debra Shostak
  • 29. Don DeLillo / Thomas Heise
  • 30. Cormac McCarthy / Brian Evenson.