Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780192844729 |
| ISBN10: | 0192844725 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 704 pages |
| Size: | 250x175x45 mm |
| Weight: | 1434 g |
| Language: | English |
| 728 |
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English
Volume 8: American Fiction since 1940
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 7 May 2024
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Short description:
An overview of US fiction since 1940 that explores the history of literary forms, the history of narrative forms, the history of the book, the history of media, and the history of higher education in the United States.
Long description:
The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a twelve-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction, written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, and tendencies.
This book offers an account of US fiction during a period demarcated by two traumatic moments: the eve of the entry of the United States into the Second World War and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The aftermath of the Second World War was arguably the high point of US nationalism, but in the years that followed, US writers would increasingly explore the possibility that US democracy was a failure, both at home and abroad. For so many of the writers whose work this volume explores, the idea of "nation" became suspect as did the idea of "national literature" as the foundation for US writing. Looking at post-1940s writing, the literary historian might well chart a movement within literary cultures away from nationalism and toward what we would call "cosmopolitanism," a perspective that fosters conversations between the occupants of different cultural spaces and that regards difference as an opportunity to be embraced rather than a problem to be solved. During this period, the novel has had significant competition for the US public's attention from other forms of narrative and media: film, television, comic books, videogames, and the internet and the various forms of social media that it spawned. If, however, the novel becomes a "residual" form during this period, it is by no means archaic. The novel has been reinvigorated over the past eighty years by its encounters with both emergent forms (such as film, television, comic books, and digital media) and the emergent voices typically associated with multiculturalism in the United States.
This book offers an account of US fiction during a period demarcated by two traumatic moments: the eve of the entry of the United States into the Second World War and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The aftermath of the Second World War was arguably the high point of US nationalism, but in the years that followed, US writers would increasingly explore the possibility that US democracy was a failure, both at home and abroad. For so many of the writers whose work this volume explores, the idea of "nation" became suspect as did the idea of "national literature" as the foundation for US writing. Looking at post-1940s writing, the literary historian might well chart a movement within literary cultures away from nationalism and toward what we would call "cosmopolitanism," a perspective that fosters conversations between the occupants of different cultural spaces and that regards difference as an opportunity to be embraced rather than a problem to be solved. During this period, the novel has had significant competition for the US public's attention from other forms of narrative and media: film, television, comic books, videogames, and the internet and the various forms of social media that it spawned. If, however, the novel becomes a "residual" form during this period, it is by no means archaic. The novel has been reinvigorated over the past eighty years by its encounters with both emergent forms (such as film, television, comic books, and digital media) and the emergent voices typically associated with multiculturalism in the United States.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Exemplum: Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1958)
Part I. THE NOVEL AND THE CULTURE INDUSTRY
The Production and Circulation of the US Novel
Exemplum: Andrew Sean Greer, Less (2017)
Prize Winning Modernism and Its Discontents
Exemplum: William Faulkner, A Fable (1954)
Middlebrow Reading
Exemplum: Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt (1952)
The Novel versus the Moving Image
Exemplum: Clockers (novel by Richard Price, 1992; film by Spike Lee, 1995)
Mediating the Novel in the Age of Warhol
Exemplum: Don DeLillo, Americana (1971)
US Postmodernist Fiction
Exemplum: Robert Coover, The Public Burning (1977)
Shattering the Feminine Mystique
Exemplum: Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)
The US War Novel
Exemplum: Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn (2009)
Part II. FICTIONS OF IDENTITY
The Wright Era
Exemplum: Richard Wright, Native Son (1940)
Jewish American Fiction
Exemplum: Allegra Goodman, Kaaterskill Falls: An American Story (1998)
Cosmopolitanism and the Indigenous Novel
Exemplum: Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977)
The Latinx Novel
Exemplum: Manuel Mu?oz, What You See in the Dark (2011)
The Asian American Novel
Exemplum: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee (1982)
The LGBTQ Novel
Exemplum: Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance (1978)
The Hemispheric Arab American Novel
Exemplum: Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin (2010)
Disability and the Novel
Exemplum: Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn (1999)
Part III. FORMS AND GENRES
Historical Fiction
Exemplum: Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde (2000)
The Short Story
Exemplum: Russell Banks, Trailerpark (1981)
Science Fiction
Exemplum: Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)
The Romance Novel
Exemplum: J. R. Ward, Dark Lover (2005)
The Detective Novel and Film
Exemplum: Paul Auster, City of Glass (1985)
Children's and Young Adult Fiction
Exemplum: Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch (2011)
The Graphic Novel
Exemplum: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen (1987)
Part IV. CRITICAL GEOGRAPHIES
Regionalism
Exemplum: Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (2004)
Ground Zero Fiction and the 9/11 Novel
Exemplum: Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
The Anthropocene Novel
Exemplum: Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower (1993)
Coda
Exemplum: Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1958)
Part I. THE NOVEL AND THE CULTURE INDUSTRY
The Production and Circulation of the US Novel
Exemplum: Andrew Sean Greer, Less (2017)
Prize Winning Modernism and Its Discontents
Exemplum: William Faulkner, A Fable (1954)
Middlebrow Reading
Exemplum: Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt (1952)
The Novel versus the Moving Image
Exemplum: Clockers (novel by Richard Price, 1992; film by Spike Lee, 1995)
Mediating the Novel in the Age of Warhol
Exemplum: Don DeLillo, Americana (1971)
US Postmodernist Fiction
Exemplum: Robert Coover, The Public Burning (1977)
Shattering the Feminine Mystique
Exemplum: Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)
The US War Novel
Exemplum: Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn (2009)
Part II. FICTIONS OF IDENTITY
The Wright Era
Exemplum: Richard Wright, Native Son (1940)
Jewish American Fiction
Exemplum: Allegra Goodman, Kaaterskill Falls: An American Story (1998)
Cosmopolitanism and the Indigenous Novel
Exemplum: Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977)
The Latinx Novel
Exemplum: Manuel Mu?oz, What You See in the Dark (2011)
The Asian American Novel
Exemplum: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee (1982)
The LGBTQ Novel
Exemplum: Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance (1978)
The Hemispheric Arab American Novel
Exemplum: Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin (2010)
Disability and the Novel
Exemplum: Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn (1999)
Part III. FORMS AND GENRES
Historical Fiction
Exemplum: Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde (2000)
The Short Story
Exemplum: Russell Banks, Trailerpark (1981)
Science Fiction
Exemplum: Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)
The Romance Novel
Exemplum: J. R. Ward, Dark Lover (2005)
The Detective Novel and Film
Exemplum: Paul Auster, City of Glass (1985)
Children's and Young Adult Fiction
Exemplum: Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch (2011)
The Graphic Novel
Exemplum: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen (1987)
Part IV. CRITICAL GEOGRAPHIES
Regionalism
Exemplum: Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (2004)
Ground Zero Fiction and the 9/11 Novel
Exemplum: Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
The Anthropocene Novel
Exemplum: Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower (1993)
Coda
