Reassessing the Twentieth-Century Canon

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction

   • Nicola Allen, David Simmons

   Pages 1-12

3. Snags in the Fairway: Reading Heart of Darkness

   • David Bradshaw

   Pages 13-26

4. ‘Hasn’t got any name’: Aesthetics, African Americans and Policemen in The Great Gatsby

   • Nicolas Tredell

   Pages 27-42

5. Urban Spaces, Fragmented Consciousness, and Indecipherable Meaning in Mrs Dalloway

   • Andrew Harrison

   Pages 43-55

6. D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover in the New Century: Literary Canon and Bodily Episteme

   • Richard Brown

   Pages 56-74

7. A Handful of Dust Realism: Modernism/Irony: Sympathy

   • Richard Jacobs

   Pages 75-90

8. Studied Ambivalence: The Appalling Strangeness of Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock

   • Susie Thomas

   Pages 91-108

9. “Come Down from Your Thinkin’ and Listen a Minute”: The Multiple Voices of The Grapes of Wrath

   • Jennifer Butler Keaton

   Pages 109-121

10. Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses Revisited

    • Linda Wagner-Martin

    Pages 122-133

11. Time, Space, and Resistance: Re-Reading George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four

    • Lawrence Phillips

    Pages 134-145

12. Lucky Jim: The Novel in Unchartered Times

    • Nicola Allen, Wasfi Shoqairat

    Pages 146-160

13. Six Myths of On the Road, and Where These Might Lead Us

    • R. J. Ellis

    Pages 161-174

14. ‘Hundred-per-Cent American Con Man’: Character in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

    • David Simmons

    Pages 175-186

15. Herzog’s Masculine Dilemmas, and the Eclipse of the Transcendental “I.”

    • Gloria L. Cronin

    Pages 187-205

16. Beyond Postmodernism in Alasdair Gray’s Lanark

    • Claire Allen

    Pages 206-220

17. Gender Vertigo: Queer Gothic and Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus

    • Sarah Gamble

    Pages 221-234

18. Whole Families Paranoid at Night: Don DeLillo’s White Noise

    • Martyn Colebrook

    Pages 235-249

19. Hooked on Classics: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 25 Years On

    • Sonya Andermahr

    Pages 250-265

20. Remembering and Disremembering Beloved: Lacunae and Hauntings

    • Gina Wisker

    Pages 266-280

The collection brings together experts in the field of twentieth-century writing to provide a volume that is both comprehensive and innovative in its discussion of a set of newly canonical texts. The book includes new applications of philosophical and critical thinking to established texts.

• Twentieth-Century Literature
• Contemporary fiction
• aesthetics
• America
• David Herbert Lawrence
• fragment
• George Orwell
• Modernism
• novel
• postmodernism
• space
• time
• British and Irish Literature

• University of Wolverhampton, UK

  Nicola Allen

• University of Northampton, UK

  David Simmons

Claire Allen, University of Northampton, UK Sonya Andermahr, University of Northampton, UK David Bradshaw, University of Oxford, UK R. H. Brown, University of Leeds, UK Jennifer Butler-Keeton, Forence-Lauderdale Public Library, USA Gloria Cronin, Brigham Young University, USA Martyn Colebrook, University of Hull, UK R. J. Ellis, University of Birmingham, UK Susan Alice Fischer, University of New York, USA Sarah Gamble, Swansea University, UK Andrew Harrison, University of Nottingham, UK Richard Jacobs, University of Brighton, UK Lawrence Phillips, Regent's University London, UK Wasfi Shoqairat, Al-Hussein bin Talal University, Jordan Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK Susie Thomas, University of Delaware, USA Nicolas Tredell, Freelance Editor, UK Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina, USA Gina Whisker, University of Brighton, UK

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