Offers a penetrating critical commentary on the works of twenty-five contemporary novelists including Barth, Mailer, Bellow, Heller, Updike and Malamud

City of Words: American Fiction, 1950-1970

Tanner, Tony

Harpercollins

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

City of words: American fiction, 1950-1970

Harper and Row

Jane Austen

Tony Tanner's classic text on Jane Austen addresses the issues that have always occupied the author's most perceptive critics, and offers an illuminating and refreshing analysis of Austen's novels. Tanner shows how Austen changed from a basically accepting view of 'society' to a more questioning one and considers the problems of authority, power and the position of women, as well as the relationship between ethics, language and behaviour. This reissued edition features a new Preface by leading Romantic scholar Marilyn Gaull who examines Tanner's background and places the original work in context. Lively and informative, the Preface helps to reinforce and explain the continued importance of Tanner's work. Accompanied by an insightful Note on the Text by Austen scholar John Wiltshire, and an expanded Bibliography and Index, this is a timely republication of a study which is now regarded as one of the finest, and most accessible, introductions to a great novelist.

British & Irish

Red Globe Press

Tony Tanner's classic text on Jane Austen addresses the issues that have always occupied the author's most perceptive critics, and offers an illuminating and refreshing analysis of Austen's novels. Tanner shows how Austen changed from a basically accepting view of 'society' to a more questioning one and considers the problems of authority, power and the position of women, as well as the relationship between ethics, language and behaviour. This reissued edition features a new Preface by leading Romantic scholar Marilyn Gaull who examines Tanner's background and places the original work in context. Lively and informative, the Preface helps to reinforce and explain the continued importance of Tanner's work. Accompanied by an insightful Note on the Text by Austen scholar John Wiltshire, and an expanded Bibliography and Index, this is a timely republication of a study which is now regarded as one of the finest, and most accessible, introductions to a great novelist.

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

'Tanner...demonstrates the value of close reading...he can see what has rarely been noticed.' Bruce Stovel, The International Fiction Review '...characteristically witty and effective...offers fascinating and occasionally brilliant readings of some of the finest novels in English.' Carolyn Wilkerson Bell, Magill's Literary Annual 1987

History & Criticism

Palgrave

Thomas Pynchon (Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction)

United States

Routledge

Examines the American authors short stories and novels and discusses his place in modern literature

Thomas Pynchon

Routledge& Kegan Paul

The adopted attitude towards reality and experience in American literature tends to be one of wonder and cultivated naivety rather than analysis and judgement. In this book, Dr Tanner offers some reasons for this and seeks to demonstrate the peculiar importance of wonder in American literature, by examining a number of key writers and showing how they confronted and assimilated reality at the same time he considers some of the difficulties incurred by this approach and studies its effects on American style.

The Reign of Wonder: Naivety and Reality in American Literature

Cambridge University Press

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City of Words: American Fiction, 1950-1970

City of Words: American Fiction, 1950-1970

City of words: American fiction, 1950-1970

Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Thomas Pynchon (Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction)

Thomas Pynchon

The Reign of Wonder: Naivety and Reality in American Literature

The Reign of Wonder: Naivety and Reality in American Literature