Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century

by John Limon

Book Overview

Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century identifies and explores what has emerged as perhaps the central theme of 21st-century American fiction: the desire to escape-from the commodified present, from directionless history, from moral death-at a time of inescapable globalization. The driving question is how to find an alternative to the world within the world, at a time when utopian and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501391100
• ISBN13: 9781501391101
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"