Benjamin Markovits

Benjamin Markovits is a leading Anglo-American novelist with a varied and ambitious body of work. Featuring contributions from emerging and established scholars, this collection provides fresh perspectives on Markovits's place in the contemporary literary field, as well as offering a detailed survey of his work to date

Autorentext

Michael Kalisch is Lecturer in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American Literature at the University of Bristol. He is the author of The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction (2021).

Inhalt

Foreword - Benjamin Markovits

Introduction: A Life Elsewhere - Michael Kalisch

1. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Academic: The Syme Papers and Singularity - Sam Reese

2. The Byron Trilogy - Peter Graham

3. 'What Hasn't Happened to You': Telling Failure in Either Side of Winter and You Don't Have to Live Like This - Rachael McLennan

4. 'Everybody got they role to play': Basketball and Belonging in Playing Days - Joshua Clayton **

5. 'The world seemed very large around me': Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits's You Don't Have to Live Like This - James Peacock

6. Temporary Concerns: The Limits of Meritocracy in You Don't Have to Live Like This - Lola Boorman

7. Strategies of Self-Detachment and 'The Business of Daily Life' in the Fiction of Benjamin Markovits - David Brauner

8. Manners, Morals, and the Essingers: A Weekend in New York and Christmas in Austin - Michael Kalisch

9. A Conversation with Benjamin Markovits - Benjamin Markovits and Kasia Boddy Index