Reassessing the Twentieth-Century Canon: From Joseph Conrad to Zadie Smith

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Snags in the Fairway: Reading Heart of Darkness....Pages 13-26
‘Hasn’t got any name’: Aesthetics, African Americans and Policemen in The Great Gatsby....Pages 27-42
Urban Spaces, Fragmented Consciousness, and Indecipherable Meaning in Mrs Dalloway....Pages 43-55
D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover in the New Century: Literary Canon and Bodily Episteme....Pages 56-74
A Handful of Dust Realism: Modernism/Irony: Sympathy....Pages 75-90
Studied Ambivalence: The Appalling Strangeness of Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock....Pages 91-108
“Come Down from Your Thinkin’ and Listen a Minute”: The Multiple Voices of The Grapes of Wrath....Pages 109-121
Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses Revisited....Pages 122-133
Time, Space, and Resistance: Re-Reading George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four....Pages 134-145
Lucky Jim: The Novel in Unchartered Times....Pages 146-160
Six Myths of On the Road, and Where These Might Lead Us....Pages 161-174
‘Hundred-per-Cent American Con Man’: Character in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest....Pages 175-186
Herzog’s Masculine Dilemmas, and the Eclipse of the Transcendental “I.”....Pages 187-205
Beyond Postmodernism in Alasdair Gray’s Lanark....Pages 206-220
Gender Vertigo: Queer Gothic and Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus....Pages 221-234
Whole Families Paranoid at Night: Don DeLillo’s White Noise....Pages 235-249
Hooked on Classics: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 25 Years On....Pages 250-265
Remembering and Disremembering Beloved: Lacunae and Hauntings....Pages 266-280
Embracing Uncertainty: Hanif Kureishi’s Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album....Pages 281-293
Samad, Hancock, the Suburbs, and Englishness: Re-reading Zadie Smith’s White Teeth....Pages 294-309
Back Matter....Pages 310-319