The anti-hero in the American novel

David Simmons
Palgrave Macmillan
 9780230603233
0-230-60323-8

The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations.

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towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically humanist and idealist elements of these works.