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By developing the concept of critical space, this title presents a genealogy of twentieth-century American fiction. It argues that the radical American fiction of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, and Josephine Herbst re-imagines the spatial concerns of late nineteenth-century utopian American texts.

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Chapter One. Utopian Naturalism in Conflict: Jack London and Upton Sinclair; Chapter Two. Hegemony, Culture, Space: John Dos Passos and Josephine Herbst; Chapter Three. The Divergence of Social Space: Mary McCarthy and Paul Goodman; Chapter Four. Realizing Abstract Space: Thomas Pynchon and William Gaddis; Chapter Five. Territoriality and the Lost Dimension: Joan Didion and Don DeLillo

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/07/2006
      ISBN13: 9780803243019, 978-0803243019
      ISBN10: 0803243014

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      Book Synopsis
      By developing the concept of critical space, this title presents a genealogy of twentieth-century American fiction. It argues that the radical American fiction of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, and Josephine Herbst re-imagines the spatial concerns of late nineteenth-century utopian American texts.

      Table of Contents
      Chapter One. Utopian Naturalism in Conflict: Jack London and Upton Sinclair; Chapter Two. Hegemony, Culture, Space: John Dos Passos and Josephine Herbst; Chapter Three. The Divergence of Social Space: Mary McCarthy and Paul Goodman; Chapter Four. Realizing Abstract Space: Thomas Pynchon and William Gaddis; Chapter Five. Territoriality and the Lost Dimension: Joan Didion and Don DeLillo

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