Andrew DixThe Contemporary American Novel in Context
Andrew Dix is Lecturer in American Studies at Loughborough University, UK. He is the author of Beginning Film Studies (Manchester University Press, 2008) and co-editor of Figures of Heresy: Radical Theology in English and American Writing, 1800-2000 (Sussex Academic Press, 2006); his other published work includes book chapters on Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and Native American fiction.
Series Editors' Preface \ Part 1 Contexts \ 1. 'Who Are We?': social and
cultural contexts of the contemporary American novel \ 2. 'Why Bother?':
literary and intellectual contexts of the contemporary American novel \
Review, reading and research \ Part 2 Texts \ 3. Consuming Fictions:
American Psycho (1991), Fight Club (1996) \ 4. Between Black and White:
Beloved (1987), The Human Stain (2000) \ 5. The Contemporary Americas
Novel: Blood Meridian (1985), Almanac of the Dead (1991), The Brief
Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) \ 6. Global Narratives: Underworld
(1997), Pattern Recognition (2003) Review, reading and research \ Part 3
Wider Contexts \ 7. Afterlives and adaptations: the contemporary American
novel on film, video and the web \ 8. Critical contexts: approaches to the
contemporary American novel Review, reading and research \ Bibliography and
sources \ Index
