Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels

Spatial History and Literary Practice

AvLaurie McRae Andrew

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels takes a fresh look at David Foster Wallace's novels through the lens of historical geography. It explores the connections between Wallace's literary practice and the reshaping of American geographical space that resulted from the transition between Fordist and post-Fordist forms of capitalism, presenting critical readings of the novels together with analysis of manuscripts and notebooks from Wallace's archive. Deploying an innovative methodology that combines aspects of cultural geography and literary criticism, each novel is historically situated through a spatial keyword, expanding our understanding of the connections between social context and formal innovation in Wallace's work.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-08-15
Mått:156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt:354 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474497558

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Laurie McRae Andrew completed his PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, and specialises in contemporary fiction and literary geographies. His essays have appeared in the forthcoming David Foster Wallace in Context (Cambridge University Press), Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and Literary Geographies.

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Lucid and stylishly written, The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels paints a rich and compelling picture of the spatial vistas that characterise Wallace’s major fiction. Laurie McRae Andrew’s study is theoretically rewarding, his readings are fine-grained and brilliant and his archival findings are impressive and full of surprises.

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Table of contents Acknowledgements Texts and abbreviations Introduction 1. ‘This strange, occluded place’: regional geography, the Midwest and The Broom of the System 2. ‘Abroad in the urban night’ (I): metropolis, ‘postmetropolis’ and Infinite Jest 3. ‘Abroad in the urban night’ (II): empathy, community and the image of the city in Infinite Jest 4. What is Peoria for? (I): postindustrial life and the language of place in The Pale King 5. What is Peoria For? (II): Peoria, the Edge City and The Pale King Bibliography