Brian Jarvis is Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film at Loughborough University, UK. He is the author of Postmodern Cartographies: The Geographical Imagination in Contemporary American Culture (1998) and Cruel and Unusual: A Cultural History of Punishment in America (2004) and of essays on topics including 'dirty realism', Vietnam War fiction, the literature and cinema of 9/11, and contemporary horror film. Paul Jenner is Lecturer in American Studies at Loughborough University, UK. He is currently working on a full-length study of the American philosopher Stanley Cavell, and his other research interests include American noir fiction, and theories and fictions of postmodernity.
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
