Screen LibraryThe twentieth-century American fiction handbook
This student-friendly handbook provides an engaging overview of American fiction over the twentieth century, with entries on the important historical contexts and central issues, as well as the major texts and writers; Provides extensive coverage of short stories and short story writers as well as n...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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This student-friendly handbook provides an engaging overview of American fiction over the twentieth century, with entries on the important historical contexts and central issues, as well as the major texts and writers; Provides extensive coverage of short stories and short story writers as well as novels and novelists; Discusses the cultural contexts and issues that shape the texts and their reputations; Wide-ranging in scope, including science fiction and recent Native American writing; Featured writers range from Henry James and Theodore Dresier to Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, and Sherm. |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 390 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-377) and index. |
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9781444393675 (electronic bk.) 1444393677 (electronic bk.) 9781444393651 1444393650 |
| Index Number: | PS379 |
| CLC: | I712.074 |
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Front Matter -- Introduction -- Historical Contexts. The American Scene, 1900 -- Expatriates: 1920s and beyond -- Charting the Depression: The 1930s -- Post-War Alienation, Experiment, and Alternatives -- Multicultural America: Borders, Tradition, and Identity -- Major Writers. Henry James (1843₆1916) -- Edith Wharton (1862₆1937) -- Theodore Dreiser (1871₆1945) -- Willa Cather (1873₆1947) -- Gertrude Stein (1874₆1946) -- Sinclair Lewis (1885₆1951) -- Raymond Chandler (1888₆1959) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891₆1960) -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896₆1940) -- John Dos Passos (1896₆1970) -- William Faulkner (1897₆1962) -- Ernest Hemingway (1899₆1961) -- Vladimir Nabokov (1899₆1977) -- Thomas Wolfe (1900₆1938) -- John Steinbeck (1902₆1968) -- Nathanael West (1903₆1940) -- Richard Wright (1908₆1960) -- William S. Burroughs (1914₆1997) -- Saul Bellow (1915₆2005) -- Norman Mailer (1923₆2007) -- James Baldwin (1924₆1987) -- John Barth (b.1930) -- Toni Morrison (b.1931) -- John Updike (1932₆2009) -- Philip Roth (b.1933) -- Don DeLillo (b.1936) -- Thomas Pynchon (b.1937) -- Joyce Carol Oates (b.1938) -- Raymond Carver (1938₆1988) -- Louise Erdrich (b.1954) -- Sherman Alexie (b.1966) -- Key Texts. Theodore Dreiser, , New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900 -- Henry James, , New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902 -- Edith Wharton, , New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905 -- Willa Cather, , Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918 -- Sherwood Anderson, , New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919 -- Sinclair Lewis, , New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922 -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, , New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925 -- Ernest Hemingway, , New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925 -- William Faulkner, , New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929 -- Zora Neale Hurston, , Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1937 -- Djuna Barnes, , London: Faber and Faber, 1936; New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1937 -- John Steinbeck, , New York: Viking, 1939 -- Richard Wright, , New York: Harper and Brothers, 1940 -- J. D. Salinger, , Boston: Little, Brown, 1951 -- Flannery O'Connor, , New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952 -- Ralph Ellison, , New York: Random House, 1952 -- Jack Kerouac, , New York: Viking, 1957 -- Vladimir Nabokov, , Paris: Olympia Press, 1955; New York: Putnam, 1958 -- Joseph Heller, , New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961 -- William S. Burroughs, , Paris: Olympia Press, 1959; New York: Grove, 1962 -- Saul Bellow, , New York: Viking, 1964 -- Thomas Pynchon, , Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966 -- Philip Roth, , New York: Random House, 1969 -- Leslie Marmon Silko, , New York: Viking, 1977 -- Alice Walker, , New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1982 -- Sandra Cisneros, , Houston: Arte Publico, 1984 -- William Gibson, , New York: Ace Science Fiction Special, 1984 -- Don DeLillo, , New York: Viking Penguin, 1985 -- Toni Morrison, , New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987 -- Amy Tan, , New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989 -- Cormac McCarthy, , New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992 -- Themes. Race and American Fiction -- The American Short Story -- Hollywood and American Fiction -- Women and Twentieth-Century American Fiction -- Guide to Further Reading -- Index. 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 -- 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) -- Key Texts -- Sister Carrie (1900) / The Wings of the Dove (1902) / The House of Mirth (1905) / My Antonia (1918) / Winesburg, Ohio (1919) / Babbitt (1922) / The Great Gatsby (1925) / In Our Time (1925) / The Sound and the Fury (1929) / Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) / Nightwood (1937) / The Grapes of Wrath (1939) / Native Son (1940) / The Catcher in the Rye (1951) / Wise Blood (1952) / Invisible Man (1952) / On the Road (1957) / Lolita (1958) / Catch-22 (1961) / Naked Lunch (1962) / Herzog (1964) / The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) / Portnoy's Complaint (1969) / Ceremony (1977) / The Color Purple (1982) / The House on Mango Street (1984) / Neuromancer (1984) / White Noise (1985) / Beloved (1987) / The Joy Luck Club (1989) / All the Pretty Horses (1992) / Themes -- Race and American Fiction -- The American Short Story -- Hollywood and American Fiction -- Women and Twentieth-Century American Fiction. |