1st Edition
Maximalism in Contemporary American Literature The Uses of Detail
Introduction
1. Giants and Junk: Power-Reading Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow
2. On Flunking: Maximalist Description in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest 94
3. Data-Sickle: Maximalism and White-Collar Aesthetics in David Foster Wallace's The Pale King
4. Just Maximalist Things: Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine and Objects of Curiosity
5. Housebound: Domestic Excess in Nicholson Baker’s Room Temperature
6. Mindless Pleasures: Playlists, Unemployment, and Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice
Conclusion: Overflow: The Margins of American Maximalism
Biography
Nick Levey teaches in the English Department at La Trobe University, Australia. He publishes on contemporary fiction and is currently writing about post-press literature and the rise of digital self-publishing.
