The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists
Title | The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Parrish |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 369 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107013135 |
This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison.
The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945
Title | The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945 PDF eBook |
Author | John N. Duvall |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 293 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521196310 |
A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists
Title | The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Poole |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 481 |
Release | 2009-12-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139828118 |
In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.
The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing
Title | The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Bendixen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2009-01-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521861098 |
A stimulating overview of American journeys from the eighteenth century to the present.
The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists
Title | The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Bell |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 475 |
Release | 2012-06-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107493897 |
A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. Each essay examines an author's use of, and contributions to, the genre and also engages an important aspect of the form, such as its relation to romance or one of its sub-genres, such as the Bildungsroman. Larger theoretical questions are introduced through specific readings of exemplary novels. Taking a broad historical and geographic view, the essays keep in mind the role the novel itself has played in the development of European national identities and in cultural history over the last four centuries. While conveying essential introductory information for new readers, these authoritative essays reflect up-to-date scholarship and also review, and sometimes challenge, conventional accounts.
The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua L. Miller |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 303 |
Release | 2015-11-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107083958 |
This Companion offers a comprehensive analysis of U.S. modernism as part of a global literature. Recent writing on U.S. immigration, imperialism, and territorial expansion has generated fresh reasons to read modernist novelists, both prominent and forgotten. Written by a host of leading scholars, this Companion provides unique approaches to modernist texts.
The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction
Title | The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Carl Link |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 291 |
Release | 2015-01-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107052467 |
This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.