1st Edition

The New Romanticism A Collection of Critical Essays

Edited By Eberhard Alsen Copyright 2000

    The New Romanticism is an overview of the romantic trend taken up by American novelists in the twentieth-century. Includes three classic essays by Saul bellow, Thomas Pyncheon, and Toni Morrison.

    Series Editor’s Preface, William E. Cain; Preface, Eberhard Alsen; Part 1 The New Romanticism; Chapter 1 Introduction, Eberhard Alsen; Part 2 Contemporary Novelists on Romantics and Romanticism; A World Too Much with Us (1975), Saul Bellow; Chapter 102 Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite? (1984), Thomas Pynchon; Chapter 103 Romancing the Shadow (1992), Toni Morrison; Part 3 Criticism on Contemporary Novelists; Chapter 104 The Romantic Style of Salinger’s “Seymour: An Introduction” (1963), John O. Lyons; Chapter 105 The New Romance (1972), Arthur Mizener; Chapter 106 Lancelot: Percy’s Romance (1983), Mark Johnson; Chapter 107 John Gardner’s “The King’s Indian” and the Romantic Tradition (1984), Gregory Morris; Chapter 108 Bellow and English Romanticism (1984), Allan Chavkin; Chapter 109 Hawthorne and O’Connor: A Literary Kinship (1989), Ronald Emerick; Chapter 110 The Other Ghost in Beloved: The Specter of The Scarlet Letter (1991), Jan Stryz; Chapter 111 Updike’s Scarlet Letter Trilogy: Recasting an American Myth (1992), James A. Schiff; Chapter 112 Ellison’s Invisible Man: Emersonianism Revised (1992), Kun Jong Lee; Chapter 113 Nabokov and Poe (1995), Dale E. Peterson; Part 4 Overviews; Chapter 114 All the New Vibrations: Romanticism in 20th-Century America (1969), Ronald L. Davis; Chapter 115 The Corpse of the Dragon: Notes on Postromantic Fiction (1975), Frank McConnell; Chapter 116 Hawthorne and the Sixties: Careening on the Utmost Verge (1985), Samuel Coale; Chapter 117 Realistic and Romantic Tendencies (1996), Eberhard Alsen; Part 5 Bibliography; Chapter 118 Bibliography, Saul Bellow;

    Biography

    Eberhard Alsen is Professor of English at State University of New York at Courtland