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

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/12/2008
      ISBN13: 9780803220768, 978-0803220768
      ISBN10: 0803220766

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      By developing the concept of critical space, this title presents a fresh 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
      One. Utopian Naturalism in Conflict: Jack London and Upton Sinclair; Two. Hegemony, Culture, Space: John Dos Passos and Josephine Herbst; Three. The Divergence of Social Space: Mary McCarthy and Paul Goodman; Four. Realizing Abstract Space: Thomas Pynchon and William Gaddis; Five. Territoriality and the Lost Dimension: Joan Didion and Don DeLillo

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