Explores the importance and complexity of classical allusiveness in
the modern American novel Explores both the sheer extent and the
ideologically-invested nature of classical allusiveness in the
modern American novel Sheds significant new light on canonical and
often-taught major American novelists Synthesizes and builds on
existing research to demonstrate how a proper understanding of each
writer's classical allusiveness contributes to broad debates about
modernism and postmodernism, intertextuality and the history and
categorization of the American novel Draws on the methodologies and
insights of Classical Reception studies as well as American
studies, and makes an invaluable contribution to both fields
Includes a user-friendly glossary that explains all the classical
names, concepts and words This book is an invaluable survey of the
allusions to ancient Greek and Roman culture in the work of seven
major modern American novelists: Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald,
William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and
Marilynne Robinson. Making the classical world accessible to all
readers, it combines new close readings of three key texts by each
author with overviews of the essential prior scholarship in the
field. It also builds on archival research in documenting the
nature and extent of each author's own familiarity with classical
literature and languages.
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