Description: Excavates the contemporary revival of 19th-century cultural pluralism, revealing how American novelists since the 1990s have appropriated the historical novel in the pursuit of selfhood rather than truth, fundamentally repositioning the genre in American culture.
Review Quotes: [T]he juxtaposition of seemingly disparate novels . ultimately proves successful, illuminating the value and logic of subjective experience in the contemporary historical novel and renewing fruitful discourse on the ways in which we read these texts.-- "SYMPLOKE"