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Reassessing the Twentieth-Century Canon Also by Nicola Allen MARGINALITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY BRITISH NOVEL Also by David Simmons THE ANTI-HERO IN THE AMERICAN NOVEL: From Joseph Heller to Kurt Vonnegut NEW CRITICAL ESSAYS ON KURT VONNEGUT Reassessing the Twentieth-Century Canon From Joseph Conrad to Zadie Smith Edited by Nicola Allen University of Wolverhampton, UK and David Simmons University of Northampton, UK Selection, introduction and editorial matter © Nicola Allen and David Simmons 2014 Individual chapters © Contributors 2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-36600-9 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. 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To Philip Tew, whose encouragement and enthusiasm remain an inspiration This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements ix Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 Nicola Allen and David Simmons 1 Snags in the Fairway: Reading Heart of Darkness 13 David Bradshaw 2 ‘Hasn’t got any name’: Aesthetics, African Americans and Policemen in The Great Gatsby 27 Nicolas Tredell 3 Urban Spaces, Fragmented Consciousness, and Indecipherable Meaning in Mrs Dalloway 43 Andrew Harrison 4 D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover in the New Century: Literary Canon and Bodily Episteme 56 Richard Brown 5 A Handful of Dust: Realism: Modernism/Irony: Sympathy 75 Richard Jacobs 6 Studied Ambivalence: The Appalling Strangeness of Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock 91 Susie Thomas 7 “Come Down from Your Thinkin’ and Listen a Minute”: The Multiple Voices of The Grapes of Wrath 109 Jennifer Butler Keaton 8 Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses Revisited 122 Linda Wagner-Martin 9 Time, Space, and Resistance: Re-Reading George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four 134 Lawrence Phillips 10 Lucky Jim: The Novel in Unchartered Times 146 Nicola Allen and Wasfi Shoqairat 11 Six Myths of On the Road, and Where These Might Lead Us 161 R. J. Ellis vii viii Contents 12 ‘Hundred-per-Cent American Con Man’: Character in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 175 David Simmons 13 Herzog’s Masculine Dilemmas, and the Eclipse of the Transcendental “I.” 187 Gloria L. Cronin 14 Beyond Postmodernism in Alasdair Gray’s Lanark 206 Claire Allen 15 Gender Vertigo: Queer Gothic and Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus 221 Sarah Gamble 16 Whole Families Paranoid at Night: Don DeLillo’s White Noise 235 Martyn Colebrook 17 Hooked on Classics: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 25 Years On 250 Sonya Andermahr 18 Remembering and Disremembering Beloved: Lacunae and Hauntings 266 Gina Wisker 19 Embracing Uncertainty: Hanif Kureishi’s Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album 281 Susan Alice Fischer 20 Samad, Hancock, the Suburbs, and Englishness: Re-reading Zadie Smith’s White Teeth 294 Philip Tew Select Bibliography 310 Index 312 Acknowledgements We would like to thank all of the contributors for their excellent work and persistence with what was, at times, a very difficult project to bring to fruition. Extra thanks are due to Lawrence Phillips, Nicolas Tredell, David Bradshaw, and Richard Brown for their suggestions of other possible con- tributors. The collection was originally conceived during conversations with Philip Tew and Steven Barfield, and we owe a debt of gratitude to them for providing inspiration for the project. We would also like to thank Palgrave Macmillan for making the book possible and being so supportive of the proj- ect from the beginning of our relationship with them. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to our families who have always provided love and encourage- ment throughout the long process of putting the collection together. ix
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