Edinburgh University Press Hardback English
The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels
Spatial History and Literary Practice
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The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels takes a fresh look at David Foster Wallaces novels through the lens of historical geography. It explores the connections between Wallaces literary practice and the reshaping of American geographical space that resulted from the transition between Fordist and post-Fordist forms of capitalism, presenting critical readings of the novels together with analysis of manuscripts and notebooks from Wallaces archive. Deploying an innovative methodology that combines aspects of cultural geography and literary criticism, each novel is historically situated through a spatial keyword, expanding our understanding of the connections between social context and formal innovation in Wallaces work.
The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels takes a fresh look at David Foster Wallaces novels through the lens of historical geography. It explores the connections between Wallaces literary practice and the reshaping of American geographical space that resulted from the transition between Fordist and post-Fordist forms of capitalism, presenting critical readings of the novels together with analysis of manuscripts and notebooks from Wallaces archive. Deploying an innovative methodology that combines aspects of cultural geography and literary criticism, each novel is historically situated through a spatial keyword, expanding our understanding of the connections between social context and formal innovation in Wallaces work.