Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Reading the American novel, 1920-2010
Principles of rhetorical reading
The Age of Innocence (1920): bildung and the ethics of desire
The Great Gatsby (1925): character narration, temporal order, and tragedy
A Farewell to Arms (1929): bildung, tragedy, and the rhetoric of voice
The Sound and the Fury (1929): portrait narrative as tragedy
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937): bildung and the rhetoric and politics of voice
Invisible Man (1952): bildung, politics, and rhetorical design
Lolita (1955): the ethics of the telling and the ethics of the told
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966): mimetic protagonist, thematic-synthetic storyworld
Beloved (1987): Sethe's choice and Morrison's ethical challenge
Freedom (2010): realism after postmodernism.
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Reading the American novel 1920-2010 by James Phelan. ISBN 9780631230670. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
