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Twenty-First Century British Novelists

Farmington Hills: Gale, 2016. 458pp. Print. Dict. of Lit. Biog. 377. Since 1978, the Dictionary of Literary Biography has been one of the world’s most comprehensive resources for literary studies, covering over 12,000 authors, works, and topics. DLB 377: Twenty-First-Century British Novelists contributes to this critical heritage with biographies of twenty-five novelists: sixteen of them are updated biographies of writers who have appeared in earlier DLBs and nine authors are appearing for the first time.

ENG 203: Major British Writers 1 Syllabus

I designed my Major British Writers 1 around Campbell's theory of the Hero's Journey, to impose some semblance of sane order to the impossible task of teaching such a small sample size of such a huge time period and huge pool of texts.

The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists. Cambridge University Press, 2013

This Companion examines the full range and vigor of the American novel. From the American exceptionalism of James Fenimore Cooper to the apocalyptic post-Americanism of Cormac McCarthy, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics chronicle the major aesthetic innovations that have shaped the American novel over the past two centuries. The essays evaluate the work, life, and legacy of influential American novelists including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison, while situating them within the context of their literary predecessors and successors. The volume also highlights less familiar, though equally significant writers such as Theodore Dreiser and Djuna Barnes, providing a balanced and wide-ranging survey of use to students, teachers, and general readers of American literature. Table of Contents Introduction Timothy Parrish 1. James Fenimore Cooper Stephen Railton 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne Robert Milder 3. Herman Melville Clark Davis 4. Harriet Beecher Stowe Arthur Riss 5. Mark Twain Peter Messent 6. Henry James Thomas J. Otten 7. Edith Wharton Pamela Knights 8. Theodore Dreiser Clare Eby 9. Willa Cather Timothy Parrish 10. F. Scott Fitzgerald Ruth Prigozy 11. Ernest Hemingway Eugene Goodheart 12. William Faulkner Philip Weinstein 13. Henry Roth Hana Wirth-Nesher 14. Djuna Barnes Alex Goody 15. Zora Neale Hurston Lovalerie King 16. Richard Wright William Dow 17. Raymond Chandler Leonard Cassuto 18. Ralph Ellison David Yaffe 19. J. D. Salinger Sarah Graham 20. Patricia Highsmith Joan Schenkar 21. Vladimir Nabokov Julian W. Connoly 22. Jack Kerouac Joshua Kupetz 23. Saul Bellow Victoria Aarons 24. Kurt Vonnegut Todd Davis 25. John Updike James Schiff 26. Thomas Pynchon David Seed 27. Toni Morrison Valerie Smith 28. Philip Roth Debra Shostak 29. Don DeLillo Thomas Heise 30. Cormac McCarthy Brian Evenson Guide to further reading Index.