Reading America new perspectives on the American novel (Cambridge Scholars, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references
Part I - The novel in America -- - Henry James's project of the new American Novel - Agnes Zsofia Kovacs -- - "It could have been any street" : Ann Petry, Stephen Crane and the fate of naturalism - Don Dingledine -- - Part II - The novel and politics -- - Truman Capote's 'In cold blood' in the atomic age - Ilse Schrynemakers -- - The space between: Ralph Ellison's politics of space and the reusable past of abolitionist literature - Zoe Trodd -- - Part III - The novel and sexuality -- - Djuna Barnes: sexual prophet of the American novel? - Richard Espley -- - Vladimir Nabokov's 'Lolita' and free play - Thomas Karshan -- - Intimacy in the radical narratives of Toni Morrison - Stephani Li -- - Showing the fly the way out of the bell-jar: cobbling a philosophy of adolescence in Joyce Carol Oates's 'I'll take you there' - Rachael McLennan -- - Part IV - The novel and postmodernism -- - Thirty acres of fairy-land: F. Scott Fitzgerald and postmodern 'Avant la lettre' - Alan Bilton -- - A postmodern iconography: Vonnegut and the American novel - Robert Tally -- - Part V - Circles of interconnection: Don DeLillo's 'Underworld' and Emersonian transcendentalism - Catherine Morley -- - Plotting a "Discourse of the secluded" : Pynchon's literary ecology - Chris Coughran -- - Part VI - The novel and language -- - Making cartoons with words: language and visual representation in Paul Auster's 'City of glass' - Rochelle Sibley -- - "Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity -- I am my language": Chicana writing - Faith Pullin