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A monumental critical history that sums up the American literary achievement from Henry James to Thomas Pynchon. Beginning with the 1890s and the seminal novels of Henry James and Theodore Dreiser, this highly acclaimed volume charts the flowering of the American narrative tradition. It takes in Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner; the emergence of Jewish and African-American literatures; and the works of Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, and Kurt Vonnegut. Updated to consider the most important fiction of the 1980s and early 90s, The Modern American Novel is a comprehensive critical history of American literary achievement."
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The Modern American Novel, Malcolm Bradbury
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- Released
- 1994
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- (Paperback)
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- Title
- The Modern American Novel
- Subtitle
- New Revised Edition
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Malcolm Bradbury
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1994
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN10
- 0140170448
- ISBN13
- 9780140170443
- Series
- Tags
- Mystery Novels, References & Manuals, Art, Compilations, Anthologies, Short Stories, USA, 20th century, American Literature, School, British Literature, 19th century, England, Culture and Society, Mythology, Linguistics, Theatre Plays, English Literature, Journalism, Literary Criticism, Writing, American History, Marketing and PR, Culture, 21st Century, Letters, About Books, Criticism, Modernism, Aesthetics, Literary Theory, Americana, Jane Austen, Critical Theory
- Description
- A monumental critical history that sums up the American literary achievement from Henry James to Thomas Pynchon. Beginning with the 1890s and the seminal novels of Henry James and Theodore Dreiser, this highly acclaimed volume charts the flowering of the American narrative tradition. It takes in Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner; the emergence of Jewish and African-American literatures; and the works of Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, and Kurt Vonnegut. Updated to consider the most important fiction of the 1980s and early 90s, The Modern American Novel is a comprehensive critical history of American literary achievement."