Contemporary American Fiction: An Introduction to American Fiction since 1970.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-APR-03

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Contemporary American Fiction: An Introduction to American Fiction since 2970. By KENNETH MILLARD. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. viii + 328 pp. 10.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-871178-6.

With the exception of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and a handful of others, all literature is subject to the vagaries of fashion. Even a writer as central to the canon as Dickens was for a time somewhat marginalized by F. R. Leavis's decision that he did not belong to the Great Tradition, and Leavis and T. S. Eliot between them promoted John Donne to, and briefly relegated Milton from, the premier league of English...

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