The Contemporary American Novel in Context [Hardcover]

Series Editors' Preface \ Part 1 Contexts \ 1. Who Are We?': social and cultural contexts of the contemporary American novel \ 2. Why Bother?': literary and intellectual contexts of the contemporary American novel \ Review, reading and research \ Part 2 Texts \ 3. Consuming Fictions: American Psycho (1991), Fight Club (1996) \ 4. Between Black and White: Beloved (1987), The Human Stain (2000) \ 5. The Contemporary Americas Novel: Blood Meridian (1985), Almanac of the Dead (1991), The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) \ 6. Global Narratives: Underworld (1997), Pattern Recognition (2003) Review, reading and research \ Part 3 Wider Contexts \ 7. Afterlives and adaptations: the contemporary American novel on film, video and the web \ 8. Critical contexts: approaches to the contemporary American novel Review, reading and research \ Bibliography and sources \ Index

Brian Jarvis is Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film at Loughborough University, UK. He is the author of Postmodern Cartographies: The Geographical Imagination in Contemporary American Culture (Pluto, 1998) and Cruel and Unusual: A Cultural History of Punishment in America (Pluto, 2004) and of essays on topics including 'dirty realism', Vietnam War fiction, the literature and cinema of 9/11, and contemporary horror film.
Paul Jenner is Lecturer in American Studies at Loughborough University, UK. He is currently working on a full-length study of the American philosopher Stanley Cavell, and his other research interests include American noir fiction, and theories and fictions of postmodernity.