Writing Backwards - Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon

Writing Backwards explores what the dominance of historical fiction in the contemporary canon reveals about American literary culture.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Contemporary Fiction in Reverse
2. The Making of the Greatest Generation
3. Colson Whitehead's History of the United States
4. Reading the Family Tree
5. The Rise of the Recent Historical Novel
Coda: Excavating the Present
Notes
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Alexander Manshel

Summary

Writing Backwards explores what the dominance of historical fiction in the contemporary canon reveals about American literary culture.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Manshel
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2023
• EAN: 9780231211277
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21127-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Literature Now
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Education, History, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary Criticism, Literary studies: from c 2000