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Routledge
158 Pages
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Routledge
158 Pages
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Routledge
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Benjamin Markovits is a leading Anglo-American novelist with a varied and ambitious body of work, ranging from a trilogy of historical fictions on the life of Lord Byron ( Imposture , 2007; A Quiet Adjustment , 2008; Childish Loves , 2011) to an award-winning portrayal of a gentrification project in Obama-era Detroit ( You Don’t Have to Live Like This , 2015) to intimate studies of... Read more
List of Contributors
Foreword by Benjamin Markovits
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: A Life Elsewhere - Michael Kalisch
- The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Academic: The Syme Papers and Singularity - Sam Reese
- The Byron Novels - Peter Graham
- ‘What Hasn’t Happened to You’: Telling Failure in Either Side of Winter and You Don’t Have to Live Like This - Rachael McLennan
- ‘Everybody got they role to play’: Basketball and Belonging in Playing Days - Joshua Clayton
- ‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This - James Peacock
- Temporary Concerns: The Limits of Meritocracy in You Don’t Have to Live Like This - Lola Boorman
- Strategies of Self-Detachment and ‘The Business of Daily Life’ in the Fiction of Benjamin Markovits - David Brauner
- Manners, Morals, and the Essingers: A Weekend in New York and Christmas in Austin - Michael Kalisch
- A Conversation with Benjamin Markovits - Benjamin Markovits and Kasia Boddy
Index
Biography
Michael Kalisch is Lecturer in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American Literature at the University of Bristol. He is the author of The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction (2021).
