A Companion To Twentiethcentury United States Fiction David Seed Ed by David Seed (ed.) 9781405146913, 9781444310108, 1405146915, 1444310100 instant download after payment.

• Features a wide-ranging series of essays by American, British, and European specialists in a variety of literary fields
• Written in an approachable and accessible style
• Covers both classic literary figures and contemporary novelists
• Provides extensive suggestions for further reading at the end of each essay

Content:
Chapter 1 U.S. Modernism (pages 9–23): Susan Hegeman
Chapter 2 The City Novel (pages 24–35): James R. Giles
Chapter 3 The Western (pages 36–47): Neil Campbell
Chapter 4 Postmodern U.S. Fiction (pages 48–59): Hans Bertens
Chapter 5 Modern Gothic (pages 60–71): Marilyn Michaud
Chapter 6 The Short Story (pages 72–83): Mark Whalan
Chapter 7 Southern Fiction (pages 84–95): Sharon Monteith
Chapter 8 Jewish American Fiction (pages 96–108): David Brauner
Chapter 9 “Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me”: Modern African American Fiction (pages 109–121): A. Robert Lee
Chapter 10 U.S. Detective Fiction (pages 122–134): Cynthia S. Hamilton
Chapter 11 Hard?Boiled/Noir Fiction (pages 135–146): Lee Horsley
Chapter 12 Chicano Fiction (pages 147–158): Helen Oakley
Chapter 13 Black Humor Fiction (pages 159–170): David Seed
Chapter 14 Fiction on the Vietnam War (pages 171–182): Philip Melling and Subarno Chattarji
Chapter 15 The Rediscovery of the Native American (pages 183–194): Joy Porter
Chapter 16 Trash Fiction (pages 195–206): Stacey Olster
Chapter 17 Edith Wharton (pages 207–218): Pamela Knights
Chapter 18 Willa Cather's Entropology: Permanence and Transmission (pages 219–228): Guy J. Reynolds
Chapter 19 Gertrude Stein and Seriality (pages 229–239): Ulla Haselstein
Chapter 20 Ernest Hemingway (pages 240–250): Peter Messent
Chapter 21 John Dos Passos (pages 251–260): Andrew Hook and David Seed
Chapter 22 Thomas Wolfe (pages 261–270): Anne Ricketson Zahlan
Chapter 23 F. Scott Fitzgerald (pages 271–281): William Blazek
Chapter 24 Zora Neale Hurston (pages 282–291): Lovalerie King
Chapter 25 Theodore Dreiser (pages 292–301): Clare Virginia Eby
Chapter 26 William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha (pages 302–312): Charles A. Peek
Chapter 27 H.D.'s Visionary Prose (pages 313–321): Rachel Connor
Chapter 28 John Steinbeck (pages 322–331): Brian Railsback
Chapter 29 Raymond Chandler (pages 332–341): Sean McCann
Chapter 30 Richard Wright (pages 342–351): Tara T. Green
Chapter 31 Ralph Ellison (pages 352–360): Rachel Farebrother
Chapter 32 James Baldwin (pages 361–368): D. Quentin Miller
Chapter 33 Vladimir Nabokov (pages 369–376): Barbara Wyllie
Chapter 34 Norman Mailer (pages 377–385): Michael K. Glenday
Chapter 35 William S. Burroughs (pages 386–394): Davis Schneiderman
Chapter 36 Saul Bellow (pages 395–402): Michael Austin
Chapter 37 Gore Vidal (pages 403–410): Heather Neilson
Chapter 38 Joseph Heller (pages 411–419): David M. Craig
Chapter 39 Kurt Vonnegut (pages 420–427): Jerome Klinkowitz
Chapter 40 Thomas Pynchon (pages 428–435): Ian Copestake
Chapter 41 Ishmael Reed: American Iconoclast (pages 436–444): Darryl Dickson?Carr
Chapter 42 Joyce Carol Oates (pages 445–453): Gavin Cologne?Brookes
Chapter 43 Philip Roth (pages 454–461): Timothy Parrish
Chapter 44 The Fiction of John Updike: Timely and Timeless (pages 462–470): Brian Keener
Chapter 45 Maxine Hong Kingston (pages 471–479): Helena Grice
Chapter 46 Toni Morrison (pages 480–488): Jennifer Terry
Chapter 47 Alice Walker (pages 489–496): Maria Lauret
Chapter 48 Don DeLillo (pages 497–504): Mark Osteen
Chapter 49 Gerald Vizenor: Postindian Gamester (pages 505–513): A. Robert Lee
Chapter 50 Bret Easton Ellis (pages 514–521): James Annesley
Chapter 51 Amy Tan: “American Circumstances and Chinese Character” (pages 522–529): Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson
Chapter 52 Paul Auster: Poet of Solitude (pages 530–538): Mark Brown
Chapter 53 Bharati Mukherjee (pages 539–546): Judie Newman