In sum, Pluralist Desires achieves an impressively compact revaluation of a number of novels written between the end of the Cold War and the early 2000s that may, at first glance, not share as much as Löf?er ably shows they do. Pluralist Desires is an inescapable book for students of the authors it discusses, of historical fiction, and of contemporary literature.

• Introduction: Saving Private Ryan, the End of the Cold War, and the Value of Historical ExperienceThe Uses of History: From Nineteenth-Century Historicism to Twenty-First-Century Pluralism"No Longer and Not Yet": Don DeLillo and the Aftermath of the Cold WarAfter Race: Body Language and Historiography in Toni Morrison's Beloved and A Mercy"A Singular Act of Invention": Storytelling, Pluralism, and Philip Roth's American TrilogyLukácsian Aesthetics, Self-Creation, and Richard Powers's Plowing the DarkEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

In sum, Pluralist Desires achieves an impressively compact revaluation of a number of novels written between the end of the Cold War and the early 2000s that may, at first glance, not share as much as Löf?er ably shows they do. Pluralist Desires is an inescapable book for students of the authors it discusses, of historical fiction, and of contemporary literature.

• Introduction: Saving Private Ryan, the End of the Cold War, and the Value of Historical ExperienceThe Uses of History: From Nineteenth-Century Historicism to Twenty-First-Century Pluralism"No Longer and Not Yet": Don DeLillo and the Aftermath of the Cold WarAfter Race: Body Language and Historiography in Toni Morrison's Beloved and A Mercy"A Singular Act of Invention": Storytelling, Pluralism, and Philip Roth's American TrilogyLukácsian Aesthetics, Self-Creation, and Richard Powers's Plowing the DarkEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

In sum, Pluralist Desires achieves an impressively compact revaluation of a number of novels written between the end of the Cold War and the early 2000s that may, at first glance, not share as much as Löf?er ably shows they do. Pluralist Desires is an inescapable book for students of the authors it discusses, of historical fiction, and of contemporary literature.

• Introduction: Saving Private Ryan, the End of the Cold War, and the Value of Historical ExperienceThe Uses of History: From Nineteenth-Century Historicism to Twenty-First-Century Pluralism"No Longer and Not Yet": Don DeLillo and the Aftermath of the Cold WarAfter Race: Body Language and Historiography in Toni Morrison's Beloved and A Mercy"A Singular Act of Invention": Storytelling, Pluralism, and Philip Roth's American TrilogyLukácsian Aesthetics, Self-Creation, and Richard Powers's Plowing the DarkEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex