The New Romanticism - A Collection of Critical Essays

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

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;

About the author

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

Summary

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 Pynchon and Toni Morrison.

Product details

• Assisted by: Eberhard Alsen (Editor), Alsen Eberhard (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2000
• EAN: 9780815335474
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-3547-4
• No. of pages: 350
• Weight: 810 g
• Series: Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, American English, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form