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31. Pynchon and History

    Metahistorical Rhetoric and Postmodern Narrative Form in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon

    By Shawn Smith

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
32. Edith Wharton as Spatial Activist and Analyst

    By Reneé Somers

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Because she devoted much of her life to exploring the relationships that exist between people and their built environment, Edith Wharton developed a set of philosophies that she expressed in many arenas, including interior design, architecture, and landscaping. Her theories of space were practiced...

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
33. Who Reads Ulysses?

    The Common Reader and the Rhetoric of the Joyce Wars

    By Julie Sloan Brannon

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
34. Creating Yoknapatawpha

    Readers and Writers in Faulkner's Fiction

    By Owen Robinson

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
35. Milton's Uncertain Eden

    Understanding Place in Paradise Lost

    By Andrew Mattison

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    This study describes a variety of ways of thinking about place in the Renaissance and in Paradise Lost. Despite coming from different perspectives, they have in common the idea that the difficulty of the relationship of reciprocity that poetic subjects often expect from their environment...

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
36. Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde

    By Paul Fortunato

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Oscar Wilde was a consumer modernist. His modernist aesthetics drove him into the heart of the mass culture industries of 1890s London, particularly the journalism and popular theatre industries. Wilde was extremely active in these industries: as a journalist at the Pall Mall Gazette; as magazine...

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
37. Sports, Narrative, and Nation in the Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald

    By Jarom McDonald

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    This study examines the ways that F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed organized spectator sports as working to help structure ideologies of class, community, and nationhood. Situating the study in the landscape of late nineteenth/early twentieth-century American sport culture, Chapter One shows how...

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
38. The Environmental Unconscious in the Fiction of Don DeLillo

    By Elise Martucci

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    This book presents an ecocritical reading of DeLillo’s novels in an attempt to mediate between the seemingly incompatible influences of postmodernism and environmentalism. Martucci argues that although DeLillo is responding to and engaging with a postmodern culture of simulacra and simulation,...

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
39. No Place for Home

    Spatial Constraint and Character Flight in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy

    By Jay Ellis

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    This book was written to venture beyond interpretations of Cormac McCarthy's characters as simple, antinomian, and non-psychological; and of his landscapes as unrelated to the violent arcs of often orphaned and always emotionally isolated and socially detached characters. As McCarthy usually...

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
40. Dickens's Secular Gospel

    Work, Gender, and Personality

    By Chris Louttit

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    The first full-length study on the subject of Dickens and work, this book reshapes our understanding of Dickens by challenging a critical oversimplification: that Dickens's attitude towards work reflects conventional expressions of Victorian earnestness of the sort attributed also to Thomas Carlyle...

    Published April 21st 2009 by Routledge