The Modern American Novel is an indispensable handbook for all those interested in the novel and American culture. This new, completely revised and updated edition of Malcolm Bradbury's examination of the modern American novel offers an extensive account of the multiplicity and variety of contemporary American fiction, while providing a clear critical survey of the fictional scene from the 1890s to 1991. In this broad study, Malcolm Bradbury traces the development of naturalism and impressionism, the growth of modernism, the realism of the thirties and forties, to the postmodern experiment of the sixties, and the work of contemporary American writers.
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Malcolm Bradbury is a novelist, critic, television dramatist and Emeritus Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia. He is author of the novels Eating People is Wrong (1959); Stepping Westward (1965); The History Man (1975); which won the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize and was adapted as a famous television series; Rates of Exchange (1983) which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Cuts: A Very Short Novel (1987), also televised; and Doctor Criminale (1992). His critical works include The Modern American Novel (1984; revised edition, 1992); No, Not Bloomsbury (essays, 1987); The Modern world: Ten Great Writers (1988); From Puritanism to Post-modernism: A History of American Literature (with Richard Ruland, 1991) He is the author of a collection of seven stories and nine parodies, entitled Who Do You Think You Are? (1976), and of several works of humour and satire, including Why Come to Slaka? (1986), Unsent Letters (1988; revised edition, 1995) and Mensonge (1987). Many of his books are published by Penguin. In addition, he has written many television plays and the television 'novel' The Gravy Train and The Gravy Train Goes East. He has adapted several television series, including Tom Sharpe's Porterhouse Blue, Kinglsey Amis's The Green Man and Stella Gibbon's' Cold Comfort Farm, now a feature film.
Malcolm Bradbury lives in Norwich, travels good deal, and in 1991 he was awarded the CBE.
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New York, Dos Passos, United States, Gertrude Stein, Henry Adams, Civil War, Sister Carrie, First World War, Henry James, John Barth, Philip Roth, Main Street, Armory Show, Donald Barthelme, Sherwood Anderson, The Sun Also Rises, Thomas Pynchon, John Hawkes, Norman Mailer, Paul Auster, Tender Is the Night, Jack London, Manhattan Transfer, Saul Bellow, The Great Gatsby New!
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- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane on 5 pages
- Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald on 5 pages
- An American Tragedy (Signet Classics) by Theodore Dreiser on 5 pages
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- Demon or Doll: Images of the Child in Contemporary Writing and Culture by Ellen Pifer in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Contemporary American Fiction: An Introduction to American Fiction since 1970 by Kenneth Millard on page 184, and Back Matter
- Twentieth-Century American Women's Fiction: A Critical Introduction by Guy Reynolds in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Parody: Ancient, Modern and Post-modern (Literature, Culture, Theory) by Margaret A. Rose in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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