This is an inspired contribution to the scholarship on one of the most influential American novels and novelists. The author positions Beloved as a meditation on historical justice and re-comprehends it as both a formal tragedy—a generic translation of fiction and tragedy or a "novel-tragedy" (Kliger)—and as a novel of objects.

This book aims to display the underpinnings and subtle references of racism and xenophobia embedded deep into literary works and personas both fictional and real. In the main chapters, literary works are dissected to underline the intolerance hidden behind words of righteousness and blind trust, as if such is the norm.

This book provides insight into the impact the 2007/8 financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession had on American fiction. Employing an interdisciplinary approach which combines literary studies with anthropology, economics, sociology, and psychology, the author attempts to gauge the changes that the crisis facilitated in the American novel. Focusing on four books, Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton, Philipp Meyer’s American Rust, Sophie McManus’s The Unfortunates, and William Gibson’s The Peripheral, the study traces how they present such issues as poverty, wealth,...

This book offers its readers a scholarly examination of Sontag's essays within the context of philosophy and aesthetics. This study constructs a dialogue between her works and their philosophical counterparts in France and Germany, which includes Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, and Walter Benjamin.

This book explores how transnational fiction can intervene in discourse surrounding the ‘war on terror’ to advocate for marginalised perspectives.

Mixed Media in Contemporary American Literature: Voices Gone Viral investigates the formation and formulation of the contemporary novel through a historical analysis of voice studies and media studies. After situating research through voices of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, this book examines the expressions of a multi-media vocality, examining the interactions among cultural polemics, aesthetic forms, and changing media in the twenty-first century. The novel studies shown here trace the ways in which the viral aesthetics of the contemporary novel move language out of...

This collection analyzes the theme of the "afterlife" as it animated nineteenth-century American women’s theology-making and appeals for social justice.

This book addresses the representation of Alzheimer’s disease in U.S contemporary fiction through the lens of memory loss.　The study focuses on how the interpretation of the erasure of memories in a person with Alzheimer’s affects our idea of identity in an individual, social and cultural sense.

Schulenberg continues the thought-provoking argument he developed in his previous two monographs by advancing the idea that one can only grasp the unique contemporary significance of pragmatism when one realizes how pragmatism, humanism, anti-authoritarianism, and postmetaphysics are interlinked.

It explores the manner in which Don DeLillo’s characters experience technocultural everyday decade after decade. The changing technoculture is  resisted at times by the characters, it points out to a transitional mode of being. This state does not dehumanize DeLillo’s characters as much as reveals their humanity in the postmodern world