Description
Book SynopsisBenjamin Markovits is a leading Anglo-American novelist with a varied and ambitious body of work, ranging from a trilogy of historical fictions on the life of Lord Byron (Imposture, 2007; A Quiet Adjustment, 2008; Childish Loves, 2011) to an award-winning portrayal of a gentrification project in Obama-era Detroit (You Don't Have to Live Like This, 2015) to intimate studies of contemporary family life (A Weekend in New York, 2018; Christmas in Austin, 2019). Prolific and unpredictable, Markovits is one of the most interesting realist writers working today.
Featuring contributions from emerging and established scholars, this collection provides fresh perspectives on Markovits's place in the contemporary literary field, as well as offering a detailed survey of his work to date. The collection begins with Markovits's early campus novel', The Syme Papers (2004), before exploring his
Table of Contents
Foreword - Benjamin Markovits
Introduction: A Life Elsewhere - Michael Kalisch
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- The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Academic: The Syme Papers and Singularity - Sam Reese
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- The Byron Trilogy - Peter Graham
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- ‘What Hasn’t Happened to You’: Telling Failure in Either Side of Winter and You Don’t Have to Live Like This - Rachael McLennan
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- ‘Everybody got they role to play’: Basketball and Belonging in Playing Days - Joshua Clayton
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- ‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This - James Peacock
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- Temporary Concerns: The Limits of Meritocracy in You Don’t Have to Live Like This - Lola Boorman
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- Strategies of Self-Detachment and ‘The Business of Daily Life’ in the Fiction of Benjamin Markovits - David Brauner
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- Manners, Morals, and the Essingers: A Weekend in New York and Christmas in Austin - Michael Kalisch
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- A Conversation with Benjamin Markovits - Benjamin Markovits and Kasia Boddy
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