Acknowledgments page vii
Introduction xiii
THE DRAMA 1940 - 1990
Christopher Bigsby, University of East Anglia
1 Introduction 3
2 Tennessee Williams 10
3 Arthur Miller 20
4 Edward Albee 44
5 Sam Shephard 52
6 David Mamet 65
7 Changing America: A changing drama? 76
FICTION AND SOCIETY, 1940 - 1970
Morris Dickstein, Graduate Center, City University of New York
1 War and the novel: from world war II to Vietnam 103
2 The new fiction: from the home front to the 1950s 135
3 On and off the road: the outsider as Young Rebel 165
4 Apocalypse now: a literature of extremes 224
AFTER THE SOUTHERN RENASCENCE 311
John Burt, Brandeis University
1 Introduction 313
2 Robert Penn Warren 320
3 Carson McCullers 342
4 Flannery O'Connor 347
5 Eudora Welty 356
6 Novels of race and class 367
7 Novels of slavery and reconstruction 375
8 Walker Percy 392
9 Reynolds Price 405
10 Peter Taylor 421