The Cambridge Companion To American Fiction After 1945

A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.

This essential 2011 reference guide offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of the diversity of American fiction since the Second World War. There are chapters on the period's significant genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors: Ralph Ellison, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison and Don DeLillo.

This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction's genres, themes, and concepts.

A compelling, comprehensive, and substantive introduction to the work of David Foster Wallace.

This book brings together leading scholars to examine slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day.

This Companion is an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the key works, genres, and movements of postmodern American fiction.

This volume offers a new introduction to the American Renaissance, exploring many of the key themes, genres, and social and cultural contexts that inform the best new scholarship in the field.

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Since 1945, British literature has served to mirror profound social, geopolitical and environmental change. Written by a host of leading scholars, this volume explores the myriad cultural movements and literary genres that have affected the development of postwar British fiction, showing how writers have given voice to matters of racial, regional and sexual identity. Covering subjects from immigration and ecology to science and globalism, this Companion draws on the latest critical innovations to provide insights into the traditions shaping the literary landscape of modern Britain, thus making it an essential resource for students and specialists alike.