By developing the concept of critical space, After Utopia presents a new genealogy of twentieth-century American fiction. Nicholas Spencer argues that the radical American fiction of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, and Josephine Herbst reimagines the spatial concerns of late nineteenth...

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1. Verfasser:	Spencer, Nicholas, 1966-
Format:	Regierungsdokument Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006.
Schlagworte:	1900-1999 American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Utopias in literature. Setting (Literature) Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Utopies dans la littérature. Espace et temps (Littérature) utopian literature. setting (surroundings) LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. American fiction Utopias in literature Utopie Raum > Motiv Roman USA Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Zusammenfassung:	By developing the concept of critical space, After Utopia presents a new genealogy of twentieth-century American fiction. Nicholas Spencer argues that the radical American fiction of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, and Josephine Herbst reimagines the spatial concerns of late nineteenth-century utopian American texts. Instead of fully imagined utopian societies, such fiction depicts localized utopian spaces that provide essential support for the models of history on which these authors focus. In the midcentury novels of Mary McCarthy and Paul Goodman and the late twentieth-century fiction of Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Joan Didion, and Don DeLillo, narratives of social space become decreasingly utopian and increasingly critical. The highly varied "critical space" of such texts attains a position similar to that enjoyed by representations of historical transformation in early twentieth-century radical American fiction. After Utopia finds that central aspects of postmodern American novels derive from the overtly political narratives of London, Sinclair, Dos Passos, and Herbst
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (x, 271 pages)
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-260) and index.
ISBN:	0803253974 9780803253971 1280466324 9781280466328 9786610466320 6610466327