American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past

THEOPHILUS SAVVAS teaches in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex, UK.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 'Nothing but words': Chronicling and Storytelling in Robert Coover's The Public Burning 'A world inside the world': Don DeLillo's Libra and Latent History Pynchon Plays Dice: Mason & Dixon and Quantum History 'A long list of regrettable actions': William T. Vollmann's Symbolic History 'There is only narrative': E.L. Doctorow Conclusion Bibliography Index

'American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past offers a new and thought provoking understanding of how a crucial strain of the American historical novel has developed through the postmodern era.' - Paula Geyh, Associate Professor of English, Yeshiva University, USA