Alexander Manshel

Writing Backwards

Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon

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Produktbeschreibung

Writing Backwards explores what the dominance of historical fiction in the contemporary canon reveals about American literary culture.

Produktdetails

• Literature Now
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 138mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780231211277
• ISBN-10: 0231211279
• Artikelnr.: 68166737

Autorenporträt

Alexander Manshel is an assistant professor of English at McGill University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Contemporary Fiction in Reverse
2. The Making of the Greatest Generation
3. Colson Whitehead's History of the United States
4. Reading the Family Tree
5. The Rise of the Recent Historical Novel
Coda: Excavating the Present
Notes
Works Cited
Index