Pluralist desires: contemporary historical fiction and the end of the Cold War

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Main Author:	Löffler, Philipp (Author)
Format:	Book/Monograph
Language:	English
Published:	Rochester, New York Camden House 2015
Series:	European studies in North American literature and culture
Subjects:	Historische Literatur USA
Online Access:	Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=028228435&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
Author Notes:	Philipp Löffler

Table of Contents:

The uses of history: From nineteenth-century historicism to twenty-first-century pluralism"No longer and not yet": Don Delillo and the aftermath of the Cold War
After race: Body language and historiography in Toni Morrison's Beloved and A Mercy
"A singular act of invention": Storytelling, pluralism, and Philip Roth's American trilogy
Lukacsian aesthetics, self-creation, and Richard Powers's Plowing the dark.