| | Malcolm Bradbury was a novelist and university professor. In his role as a literary critic, he wrote the survey Dangerous Pilgrimages : Transatlantic Mythologies and the Novel to describe the responses of American and Western European (mainly British and French) writers to expatriation and how they "invented" each other's societies.
I found interesting his treatments of writers and critics I'd always heard about but didn't know in any detail, such as Washington Irving, Gertrude Stein, Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard. Bradbury examines Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit, Hawthorne's The Marble Faun, Melville's Redburn, Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, and Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, to name only a few in this 500-some-page book.
Serious readers into cultural history or topics like The Lost Generation will enjoy this book. Bradbury, a fluent writer, writes readable literary criticism for non-academic readers like me.
I read this in a 520-page Penguin edition (014024347X) as the fourth book for the Chunkster Challenge.
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