"Meadowsong has written a seductive book. As she revisits iconic passages of canonical texts, she offers such lucid and compelling insights that you feel as if you have known them all along." Robin Blyn, University of West Florida.

Autorentext

Zena Meadowsong is an Associate Professor of English at Rowan University, USA.

Klappentext

Narrative Machine advances a new history of the novel, identifying a crucial link between narrative innovation and the historical process of mechanization.

Inhalt

Introduction Part 1. Naturalism and the Mechanical Monster Chapter 1: Zola's monster machines Chapter 2: Mechanical monsters in England and America Chapter 3: The machined aesthetics of Dreiser, Crane, Moore, Wharton, and Gissing Part 2. Modernism versus the Machine Chapter 4: Lawrence and the monster machine Chapter 5: Joyce's utopian machine Chapter 6: Against the quotidian machine: Woolf, Hemingway, and Proust Part 3. Postmodernism: Living with the Machine Chapter 7: The new sunshine: Ballard, Vonnegut, and Dick Chapter 8: The digital and atomic plots of Pynchon and DeLillo Chapter 9: The machinery of liberation: Georges Perec