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- catalog abstract ""Road-Book America discloses how the old picaresque tradition, embodied in such novels as Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, opens to include a number of new American texts, both fiction and nonfiction, that decisively share the characterizing form. Sherrill's discussion encompasses hundreds of American narratives published in the past four decades, including such examples of the genre as William Least Heat Moon's Blue Highways, John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, James Leo Herlihy's Midnight Cowboy, Bill Moyers's Listening to America, and E.L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate. Sketching the socially marginal, ingenuous, traveling characters common to both old and new versions, Sherrill shows how the "new American picaresque" transforms the satirical aims of the original into an effort to map and catalog the immensity and variety of America."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11635865.
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization 1945-".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Road-Book America discloses how the old picaresque tradition, embodied in such novels as Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, opens to include a number of new American texts, both fiction and nonfiction, that decisively share the characterizing form. Sherrill's discussion encompasses hundreds of American narratives published in the past four decades, including such examples of the genre as William Least Heat Moon's Blue Highways, John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, James Leo Herlihy's Midnight Cowboy, Bill Moyers's Listening to America, and E.L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: The Road Work of the New American Picaresque -- pt. 1. The Literary Work of the New American Picaresque. 1. The Picaresque Old and New: The Question of Continuity. 2. The Picaresque Borrowed and Blue: The Matter of Change. 3. The Picaro in Fiction, the Picaresque in Fact: Blurring Genres -- pt. 2. The Social Work of the New American Picaresque. 4. The Picaro's Recovery of the Sovereign Self: Road Cures. 5. The Picaro in Social Space: Stranger Still. 6. The Picaro in the Nick of Time: Virtues of the Margin -- pt. 3. The Cultural Work of the New American Picaresque. 7. Homo Viator, Homo Spectans: Slants on the Size of America. 8. Road Work: Detours into the Renewal of American Meanings.".
- catalog description "Sketching the socially marginal, ingenuous, traveling characters common to both old and new versions, Sherrill shows how the "new American picaresque" transforms the satirical aims of the original into an effort to map and catalog the immensity and variety of America."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xi, 352 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0252025466 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization 1945-".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "810.9/355 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American prose literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PS374.P47 S54 2000".
- catalog subject "Picaresque literature, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Travel in literature.".
- catalog subject "Travel writing History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Travelers United States 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Travelers United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Travelers in literature.".
- catalog subject "Travelers' writings, American History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The Road Work of the New American Picaresque -- pt. 1. The Literary Work of the New American Picaresque. 1. The Picaresque Old and New: The Question of Continuity. 2. The Picaresque Borrowed and Blue: The Matter of Change. 3. The Picaro in Fiction, the Picaresque in Fact: Blurring Genres -- pt. 2. The Social Work of the New American Picaresque. 4. The Picaro's Recovery of the Sovereign Self: Road Cures. 5. The Picaro in Social Space: Stranger Still. 6. The Picaro in the Nick of Time: Virtues of the Margin -- pt. 3. The Cultural Work of the New American Picaresque. 7. Homo Viator, Homo Spectans: Slants on the Size of America. 8. Road Work: Detours into the Renewal of American Meanings.".
- catalog title "Road-book America : contemporary culture and the new picaresque / Rowland A. Sherrill.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".