Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel

by Tim Lanzendörfer

Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel highlights the emergence of a literary mode, speculative historism, over the past two decades in U.S. literature. Discussing in depth novels by writers such as Ken Kalfus, Joyce Carol Oates, and Colson Whitehead, among others, it integrates questions of critical method, genre, form, and literary theory, all of which have some urgency today. Addressing itself to the question of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 139951914X
• ISBN13: 9781399519144
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"