Offers a penetrating critical commentary on the works of twenty-five contemporary novelists including Barth, Mailer, Bellow, Heller, Updike and Malamud

City of Words: American Fiction, 1950-1970

Tanner, Tony

Harpercollins

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

City of words: American fiction, 1950-1970

Harper and Row

Jane Austen

Tony Tanner's classic text on Jane Austen addresses the issues that have always occupied the author's most perceptive critics, and offers an illuminating and refreshing analysis of Austen's novels. Tanner shows how Austen changed from a basically accepting view of 'society' to a more questioning one and considers the problems of authority, power and the position of women, as well as the relationship between ethics, language and behaviour. This reissued edition features a new Preface by leading Romantic scholar Marilyn Gaull who examines Tanner's background and places the original work in context. Lively and informative, the Preface helps to reinforce and explain the continued importance of Tanner's work. Accompanied by an insightful Note on the Text by Austen scholar John Wiltshire, and an expanded Bibliography and Index, this is a timely republication of a study which is now regarded as one of the finest, and most accessible, introductions to a great novelist.

British & Irish

Red Globe Press

Tony Tanner's classic text on Jane Austen addresses the issues that have always occupied the author's most perceptive critics, and offers an illuminating and refreshing analysis of Austen's novels. Tanner shows how Austen changed from a basically accepting view of 'society' to a more questioning one and considers the problems of authority, power and the position of women, as well as the relationship between ethics, language and behaviour. This reissued edition features a new Preface by leading Romantic scholar Marilyn Gaull who examines Tanner's background and places the original work in context. Lively and informative, the Preface helps to reinforce and explain the continued importance of Tanner's work. Accompanied by an insightful Note on the Text by Austen scholar John Wiltshire, and an expanded Bibliography and Index, this is a timely republication of a study which is now regarded as one of the finest, and most accessible, introductions to a great novelist.

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Thomas Pynchon (Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction)

United States

Routledge

Examines the American authors short stories and novels and discusses his place in modern literature

Thomas Pynchon

Routledge& Kegan Paul

The adopted attitude towards reality and experience in American literature tends to be one of wonder and cultivated naivety rather than analysis and judgement. In this book, Dr Tanner offers some reasons for this and seeks to demonstrate the peculiar importance of wonder in American literature, by examining a number of key writers and showing how they confronted and assimilated reality at the same time he considers some of the difficulties incurred by this approach and studies its effects on American style.

The Reign of Wonder: Naivety and Reality in American Literature

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men: Essays on 19th and 20th Century American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 31)

This book is about the relationship of the American writer to his land and language - to the 'scene' and the 'sign', to the natural landscape and the inscriptions imposed upon it by men. Among the questions considered in the first section of the book are how does American Romantic writing differ from European; what are the peculiar problems faced by the American artist, and what roles does he adopt to tackle them; what kind of writing results when authors as different as Henry Adams and Mark Twain lament the vanishing of an earlier America, or when Adams and Henry James review their complex relationship to their homeland, or when W. D. Howells and Stephen Crane seek to define their themes in a specifically American setting. The second section of the book examines similar concerns in a number of contemporary writers, notably Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, John DeLillo, and William Gass.

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City of Words: American Fiction, 1950-1970

City of Words: American Fiction, 1950-1970

City of words: American fiction, 1950-1970

Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Thomas Pynchon (Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction)

Thomas Pynchon

The Reign of Wonder: Naivety and Reality in American Literature

The Reign of Wonder: Naivety and Reality in American Literature

Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men: Essays on 19th and 20th Century American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 31)