The twentieth-century American fiction handbook / Christopher MacGowan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell literature handbooksPublication details: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.Description: xvii, 390 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781405160247
  • 1405160241
  • 9781405160230
  • 1405160233
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.509 22
LOC classification:
  • PS379 .M255 2011
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Historical Contexts -- The American Scene, c.1900 -- Expatriates: 1920s and Beyond -- Charting the Depression: The 1930s -- Post-war Alienation, Experiment, and Alternatives -- Multicultural America: Borders, Tradition, and Identity -- pt. 2 Major Writers -- Henry James (1843-1916) -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937) -- Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) -- Willa Cather (1873-1947) -- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) -- Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) -- Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) -- John Dos Passos (1896-1970) -- William Faulkner (1897-1962) -- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) -- Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) -- Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) -- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) -- Nathanael West (1903-1940) -- Richard Wright (1908-1960) -- William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) -- Saul Bellow (1915-2005).
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) -- James Baldwin (1924-1987) -- John Barth (b. 1930) -- Toni Morrison (b. 1931) -- John Updike (1932-2009) -- Philip Roth (b. 1933) -- Don DeLillo (b. 1936) -- Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937) -- Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) -- Raymond Carver (1938-1988) -- Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) -- Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) -- pt. 3 Key Texts -- Sister Carrie (1900) / Theodore Dreiser -- The Wings of the Dove (1902) / Henry James -- The House of Mirth (1905) / Edith Wharton -- My Antonia (1918) / Willa Cather -- Winesburg, Ohio (1919) / Sherwood Anderson -- Babbitt (1922) / Sinclair Lewis -- The Great Gatsby (1925) / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- In Our Time (1925) / Ernest Hemingway -- The Sound and the Fury (1929) / William Faulkner -- Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) / Zora Neale Hurston -- Nightwood (1937) / Djuna Barnes -- The Grapes of Wrath (1939) / John Steinbeck -- Native Son (1940) / Richard Wright.
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) / J.D. Salinger -- Wise Blood (1952) / Flannery O'Connor -- Invisible Man (1952) / Ralph Ellison -- On the Road (1957) / Jack Kerouac -- Lolita (1958) / Vladimir Nabokov -- Catch-22 (1961) / Joseph Heller -- Naked Lunch (1962) / William S. Burroughs -- Herzog (1964) / Saul Bellow -- The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) / Thomas Pynchon -- Portnoy's Complaint (1969) / Philip Roth -- Ceremony (1977) / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The Color Purple (1982) / Alice Walker -- The House on Mango Street (1984) / Sandra Cisneros -- Neuromancer (1984) / William Gibson -- White Noise (1985) / Don DeLillo -- Beloved (1987) / Toni Morrison -- The Joy Luck Club (1989) / Amy Tan -- All the Pretty Horses (1992) / Cormac McCarthy -- pt. 4 Themes -- Race and American Fiction -- The American Short Story -- Hollywood and American Fiction -- Women and Twentieth-Century American Fiction.
Summary: This student-friendly handbook provides an overview of American fiction over the 20th century, with entries on the important historical contexts and central issues, as well as the major texts and writers.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-377) and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Historical Contexts -- The American Scene, c.1900 -- Expatriates: 1920s and Beyond -- Charting the Depression: The 1930s -- Post-war Alienation, Experiment, and Alternatives -- Multicultural America: Borders, Tradition, and Identity -- pt. 2 Major Writers -- Henry James (1843-1916) -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937) -- Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) -- Willa Cather (1873-1947) -- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) -- Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) -- Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) -- John Dos Passos (1896-1970) -- William Faulkner (1897-1962) -- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) -- Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) -- Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) -- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) -- Nathanael West (1903-1940) -- Richard Wright (1908-1960) -- William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) -- Saul Bellow (1915-2005).

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) -- James Baldwin (1924-1987) -- John Barth (b. 1930) -- Toni Morrison (b. 1931) -- John Updike (1932-2009) -- Philip Roth (b. 1933) -- Don DeLillo (b. 1936) -- Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937) -- Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) -- Raymond Carver (1938-1988) -- Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) -- Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) -- pt. 3 Key Texts -- Sister Carrie (1900) / Theodore Dreiser -- The Wings of the Dove (1902) / Henry James -- The House of Mirth (1905) / Edith Wharton -- My Antonia (1918) / Willa Cather -- Winesburg, Ohio (1919) / Sherwood Anderson -- Babbitt (1922) / Sinclair Lewis -- The Great Gatsby (1925) / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- In Our Time (1925) / Ernest Hemingway -- The Sound and the Fury (1929) / William Faulkner -- Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) / Zora Neale Hurston -- Nightwood (1937) / Djuna Barnes -- The Grapes of Wrath (1939) / John Steinbeck -- Native Son (1940) / Richard Wright.

The Catcher in the Rye (1951) / J.D. Salinger -- Wise Blood (1952) / Flannery O'Connor -- Invisible Man (1952) / Ralph Ellison -- On the Road (1957) / Jack Kerouac -- Lolita (1958) / Vladimir Nabokov -- Catch-22 (1961) / Joseph Heller -- Naked Lunch (1962) / William S. Burroughs -- Herzog (1964) / Saul Bellow -- The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) / Thomas Pynchon -- Portnoy's Complaint (1969) / Philip Roth -- Ceremony (1977) / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The Color Purple (1982) / Alice Walker -- The House on Mango Street (1984) / Sandra Cisneros -- Neuromancer (1984) / William Gibson -- White Noise (1985) / Don DeLillo -- Beloved (1987) / Toni Morrison -- The Joy Luck Club (1989) / Amy Tan -- All the Pretty Horses (1992) / Cormac McCarthy -- pt. 4 Themes -- Race and American Fiction -- The American Short Story -- Hollywood and American Fiction -- Women and Twentieth-Century American Fiction.

This student-friendly handbook provides an overview of American fiction over the 20th century, with entries on the important historical contexts and central issues, as well as the major texts and writers.

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