1st Edition
Catastrophe and Imagination English and American Writings from 1870 to 1950
By John McCormick
Copyright 1998
342 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
327 Pages
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Routledge
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Since World War II critics have been predicting the decline of the novel. This book argues that the novel is not dead. Looking at American and English fiction it claims that the novel can not only change the possibilities of art, but also contribute to awareness of life's possibilities.
1. Background to Catastrophe 2. An Experiment in Definition 3. Death, Manners, and Ideas 4. The two Naturalisms 5. Tradition and the Novel: England 6. Tradition and the Novel: America 7. War and Politics 8. The Novel As Obsession 9. Allegory and Satire 10. The Unwithered Branch
Biography
John McCormick
