{"product_id":"from-puritanism-to-postmodernism-isbn-9780140144352","title":"From Puritanism to Postmodernism","description":"\u003cb\u003eA concise history of modern American literature \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Modernist\/Postmodernist perspective, leading critics Richard Ruland (American) and Malcolm Bradbury (British) address questions of literary and cultural nationalism. They demonstrate that since the seventeenth century, American writing has reflected the political and historical climate of its time and helped define America's cultural and social parameters. Above all, they argue that American literature has always been essentially \"modern,\" illustrating this with a broad range of texts: from Poe and Melville to Fitzgerald and Pound, to Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Thomas Pynchon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003ePuritanism to Postmodernism\u003c\/i\u003e pays homage to the luxuriance of American writing by tracing the creation of a national literature that retained its deep roots in European culture while striving to achieve cultural independence.Preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. The Literature of British America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Puritan Legacy\u003cbr\u003e2. Awakening and Enlightenment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. From Colonial Outpost to Cultural Province\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Revolution and (In)Dependence\u003cbr\u003e4. American Naissance\u003cbr\u003e5. Yea-saying and Nay-saying\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Native and Cosmopolitan Crosscurrents: From Local Color to Realism and Naturalism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Secession and Loyalty\u003cbr\u003e7. Muckrakers and Early Moderns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Modernism in the American Grain\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. Outland Darts and Homemade Worlds\u003cbr\u003e9. The Second Flowering\u003cbr\u003e10. Radical Reassessments\u003cbr\u003e11. Strange Realities, Adequate Fictions\u003cbr\u003eIndexMalcolm Bradbury is a novelist, critic, television dramatist and Emeritus Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia.   He is author of the novels \u003ci\u003eEating People is Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e (1959); \u003ci\u003eStepping Westward\u003c\/i\u003e (1965); \u003ci\u003eThe History Man\u003c\/i\u003e (1975); which won the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize and was adapted as a famous television series; \u003ci\u003eRates of Exchange\u003c\/i\u003e (1983) which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; \u003ci\u003eCuts: A Very Short Novel\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), also televised; and \u003ci\u003eDoctor Criminale\u003c\/i\u003e (1992).  His critical works include \u003ci\u003eThe Modern American Novel\u003c\/i\u003e (1984; revised edition, 1992); \u003ci\u003eNo, Not Bloomsbury\u003c\/i\u003e (essays, 1987); \u003ci\u003eThe Modern world: Ten Great Writers\u003c\/i\u003e (1988); \u003ci\u003eFrom Puritanism to Post-modernism: A History of American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (with Richard Ruland, 1991) He is the author of a collection of seven stories and nine parodies, entitled\u003ci\u003e Who Do You Think You Are?\u003c\/i\u003e (1976), and of several works of humour and satire, including\u003ci\u003e Why Come to Slaka?\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), \u003ci\u003eUnsent Letters\u003c\/i\u003e (1988; revised edition, 1995) and \u003ci\u003eMensonge\u003c\/i\u003e (1987).  Many of his books are published by Penguin.  In addition, he has written many television plays and the television 'novel' \u003ci\u003eThe Gravy Train\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Gravy Train Goes East\u003c\/i\u003e.  He has adapted several television series, including Tom Sharpe's \u003ci\u003ePorterhouse Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, Kinglsey Amis's \u003ci\u003eThe Green Man\u003c\/i\u003e and Stella Gibbon's' \u003ci\u003eCold Comfort Farm\u003c\/i\u003e, now a feature film.\u003cp\u003eMalcolm Bradbury lives in Norwich, travels good deal, and in 1991 he was awarded the CBE.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304788906213,"sku":"NP9780140144352","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140144352.jpg?v=1767727743","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/from-puritanism-to-postmodernism-isbn-9780140144352","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}