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

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David Simmons is Senior Lecturer in English and Screen Studies at the University of Northampton, UK.

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The Rebel with a Cause? The Anti-heroic figure in American Fiction of the 1960s Individualism and the Anti-Capitalist, Anti-heroic Figure in American Fiction of the 1960s The Outlaw Returns: The Cowboy in American Fiction of the 1960s Sinner or Saint? The Anti-hero as Christ Figure in the American Novel of the 1960s