This study illustrates the generic development of the family novel in the second half of the twentieth century. It is a microscopic approach to novels featuring the American family and its (post-)postmodern variations. Dells work examines how the family, its forms and its conflicts are functionalized for an authors cultural critique. From post-war to post-millennium, family novelists have sketched the American family in various precarious conditions, and their texts are critical assessments of contemporary socioeconomic and cultural conditions. Dells close reading of John Cheevers The...
This study illustrates the generic development of the family novel in the second half of the twentieth century. It is a microscopic approach to no...