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This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from 'The Remains of the Day' to 'White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.

For most people, the work of Frederic Remington conjures an antiquarian world of all things western. Why this is so, and whether it should be so, are two of the critical questions raised in this book. Stephen Tatum closely considers selected paintings from Remington s last four years of life his so-called years of critical acclaim. Tatum s purpose is twofold: first, to understand these paintings, both formally and thematically, within their historical, aesthetic, and biographical contexts; and second, to account for what endows them today after marking the centennial of Remington s...

Considers Las Vegas and the problem of regional identity in the American West through a case study of a single episode of the crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Delving deep into the interwoven events of the episode titled ""4 x 4"", but resisting a linear, logical case-study approach, the authors draw connections between the city and the violent, uncanny mysteries of a crime scene.