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RR 2014/053 The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists Edited by Timothy Parrish Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2013 xxxiv + 328 pp. ISBN 978 1 107 01313 1 (hbck); ISBN 978 1 107 60097 3 (pbck); ISBN 978 1 107 48194 7 (e-book) £55 $99 (hbck); £19.99 $29.99 (pbck); $24 (e-book) Cambridge Companions to Literature
Keywords American literature, Novelists
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-08-2013-0222
From James Fenimore Cooper, considered to be the "father of the American novel", to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy, The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists encapsulates the "full range and vigour" of American authors and texts. According to editor Timothy Parrish, the Spanish "discovery" of the Americas in the sixteenth century and the introduction of the novel to the New World in the form of Cervantes' Don Quixote began an enduring examination of national identity...