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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Cambridge ; New York :
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2013.
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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.