twentieth-century literature
American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative
Reading Vietnam Amid the War on Terror Ty Hawkins, Assistant Professor of English, Walsh University of Ohio, USA
Mailer, Wideman, Eggers Jonathan D’Amore, Lecturer, St. Michael’s College, USA
This book explores the conflicted relationship writers have with their public image, particularly when they have written about their personal lives. D’Amore analyzes the autobiographical works of Norman Mailer, John Edgar Wideman, and Dave Eggers in light of theories of authorship, autobiography, and celebrity. Contents: Norman Mailer's Existential Autobiography / Process and Play in 'Great Time': John Edgar Wideman's Interactive Autobiographical Project / 'But SelfAwareness Is Sincerity': Authorship and Exposure, Irony and Earnestness, Dave Eggers and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius June 2012 Hardback
224pp £50.00
216x140mm 978-0-230-39067-6
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Writing Celebrity Stein, Fitzgerald, and the Modern(ist) Art of SelfFashioning Timothy W. Galow, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Wake Forest University, USA
252pp £52.00
216x138mm 978-0-230-11271-1
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Contents: American Myth, Vietnam, and the Prospect of Repetition / Philip Caputo’s Deconstruction of the Warrior-Hero Ideal / Michael Herr’s Dispatches and the Allure of Combat / The Perversion of Labor in Larry Heinemann’s Vietnam / Tim O’Brien’s Search for an Ideal Femininity / Community in Bobbie Ann Mason’s War Fiction / February 2012 Hardback
224 pp £52.00
Edited by David Simmons, Lecturer in American Literature, Film, and Television Studies, University of Northampton, UK
‘Together the essays stand as an introduction to rereading Vonnegut, demonstrating that his canon may be worth re-examining. Secret lovers of Vonnegut (and sci-fi) will use this book to defend their affections for an artist whose pop fame and pop forms dismay some critics. And one can almost imagine Vonnegut’s crooked smile at essays that seek to reserve a place in high-toned literary debates for his works.’ - Choice December 2011 250 pp Paperback £17.99
216x138mm 978-0-230-12097-6
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216x138mm 978-0-230-34002-2
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Contents: PART I: CONTEXTS: LITERARY MODERNISM IN THE AGE OF CELEBRITY / Critical Histories: The Changing Face of Literature, 1870-1920 / Critical Reassessments: Celebrity, Modernism, and the Literary Field in the 1920s and 30s / PART II: FROM TOKLAS TO EVERYBODY: GERTRUDE STEIN BETWEEN AUTOBIOGRAPHIES / The Celebrity Speaks: Gertrude Stein’s Aesthetic Theories After The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas / After the Tour: Naturalized Aesthetics and Systematized Contradictions / PART III: THE CRACKUP OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD / On the Limitations of Image Management: The Long Shadow of ‘F. Scott Fitzgerald’ / The ‘Crack-Up’ Essays: Masculine Identity, Modernism, and the Dissolution of Literary Values May 2011 Hardback
This book argues that the examination of contemporary American war narratives can lead to newfound understandings of American literature, American history, and American national purpose. To prove such a contention, the book blends literary, rhetorical, and cultural methods of analysis.
New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut
Amnesia and Redress in Contemporary American Fiction Counterhistory Marni Gauthier, Associate Professor of English, State University of New York College at Cortland, USA
Bret Easton Ellis Georgina Colby, Visiting Lecturer in English, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history. Gauthier focuses on the works of Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Bharati Mukherjee, and Julie Otsuka.
August 2011 Hardback
October 2011 Hardback
Underwriting the Contemporary
240pp £52.00
216x138mm 978-0-230-11698-6
266pp £52.00
216x138mm 978-0-230-11577-4
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