This is a critical survey of works by a writer torn between
Emersonian engagement and Dickinsonesque withdrawal.""Understanding
Richard Powers"" presents an introduction to one of the most
important and admired writers to emerge in the post-Pynchon era of
American literature. Joseph Dewey contends that while Powers'
novels investigate the most pressing issues of the new millennium,
the novelist is most deeply interested in the same thematic
argument that consumed Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson -
the problem of the self, the deep and unshakable loneliness that
has always been at the heart of the American literary
imagination.Through an overview of Powers' career and close
readings of his novels, which include ""Galatea 2.2"", ""Prisoner's
Dilemma"", ""The Gold Bug Variations"", ""Operation Wandering
Soul"", ""Gain"", and ""Plowing the Dark"", Dewey places Powers in
context as a major voice in the first generation born entirely
within the era of television and the computer and shows us how
Powers reminds his readers that we have never been so connected and
yet never quite so alone.
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