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Author Conroy, Mark

Title Muse in the machine : American fiction and mass publicity / Mark Conroy
Published Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 232 pages)
Contents Theoretical and historical prologue -- Ghosts and muses: Henry James -- Machine age and beyond: from West to DeLillo -- Letters and spirit in Miss Lonelyhearts -- Promise and prophecy: the artist's vision in The day of the locust -- Quilty the guilty: scapegoating mass culture in Lolita -- The American way and its double in Lot 49 -- From tombstone to tabloid: authority figured in White noise -- Mao II: a portrait of the artist in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Concluding unsystematic speculation: within the crisis of no crisis
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) and index
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Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Mass media in literature.
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Authors and publishers -- United States -- History
Literature publishing -- United States -- History
Fiction -- Marketing -- History
Authors and readers -- United States -- History
Mass media -- United States -- History
American fiction -- United States -- Marketing -- History
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
American fiction
Authors and publishers
Authors and readers
Fiction -- Marketing
Literature publishing
Mass media
Mass media in literature
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004002172
ISBN 0814273254
9780814273258