A monumental critical history that sums up the American literary achievement from Henry James to Thomas Pynchon.
Beginning with the 1890s and the seminal novels of Henry James and Theodore Dreiser, this highly acclaimed volume charts the flowering of the American narrative tradition. It takes in Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner; the emergence of Jewish and African-American literatures; and the works of Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, and Kurt Vonnegut. Updated to consider the most important fiction of the 1980s and early ’90s, The Modern American Novel is a comprehensive critical history of American literary achievement.
- ISBN10 0140170448
- ISBN13 9780140170443
- Publish Date 1 March 1994 (first published 21 April 1983)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 11 August 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Penguin Putnam Inc
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 352
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780140170443