The twentieth-century American fiction handbook / Christopher MacGowan.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Blackwell Literature HandbooksPublication details: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.Description: xvii, 390 p. ; 23 cmISBN: - 9781405160247 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1405160241 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781405160230 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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- PS 379 M146t 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
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