Gumshoe America by Sean McCann5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Gordon Hutner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign It is simply the best book we have yet on the literature of this century. The historical nuance and theoretical edge of this broadly based inquiry exhibit both her grasp of interpretative subtleties and her luminous powers of synthesis. Perhaps the most exciting aspect lies in Irr's willingness to conceive of her subject, not on the basis of a handful of texts, but on a voluminous array of novels. Irr has written a superb study, one that contributes greatly to our appreciation of the new dimensions of contemporary U.S. David James, author of Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel Caren Irr provokes fresh discussions about the critical and cultural horizons of the novel since 2000, enabling us to chart how historical fiction has developed formally after postmodernism. Sean McCann, author of Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism Toward the Geopolitical Novel is lucidly conceived and forcefully argued, ranging across a formidable spectrum of writers to set a new agenda for understanding the contemporary novel. ![]() It will make a vital contribution to the understanding of contemporary literary fiction in the United States and of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature more generally. ![]() ![]() Toward the Geopolitical Novel is an original, frequently brilliant, and indefatigably learned book. ![]()
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