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1 online resource (x, 271 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-260) and index. |
| Contents |
Utopian naturalism in conflict : Jack London and Upton Sinclair -- Hegemony, culture, space : John Dos Passos and Josephine Herbst -- The divergence of social space : Mary McCarthy and Paul Goodman -- Realizing abstract space : Thomas Pynchon and William Gaddis -- Territoriality and the lost dimension : Joan Didion and Don DeLillo. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
By developing the concept of critical space, After Utopia presents a new genealogy of twentieth-century American fiction. Nicholas Spencer argues that the radical American fiction of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, and Josephine Herbst reimagines the spatial concerns of late nineteenth-century utopian American texts. Instead of fully imagined utopian societies, such fiction depicts localized utopian spaces that provide essential support for the models of history on which these authors focus. In the midcentury novels of Mary McCarthy and Paul Goodman and the late twentieth-century fiction of Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Joan Didion, and Don DeLillo, narratives of social space become decreasingly utopian and increasingly critical. The highly varied "critical space" of such texts attains a position similar to that enjoyed by representations of historical transformation in early twentieth-century radical American fiction. After Utopia finds that central aspects of postmodern American novels derive from the overtly political narratives of London, Sinclair, Dos Passos, and Herbst. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Utopias in literature.
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Utopias in literature. |
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Setting (Literature)
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Setting (Literature) |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Spencer, Nicholas, 1966- After utopia. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006 0803243014 (DLC) 2005030532 (OCoLC)62152829 |
| ISBN |
0803253974 (electronic book) |
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9780803253971 (electronic book) |
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1280466324 |
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9781280466328 |
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9780803243019 (alkaline paper) |
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0803243014 (alkaline paper) |
| Sudoc No. |
U5002 T147 -2006 |
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