Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction
This book examines representations of the specter in American twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction. David Coughlan’s innovative structure has chapters on Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip Roth alternating with s
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Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction
David Coughlan
Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction
David Coughlan School of Culture and Communication University of Limerick Limerick, Ireland
ISBN 978-1-137-41023-8 ISBN 978-1-137-41024-5 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-41024-5
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To my grandmother, Mary Coughlan
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book began life as a research project, “Ghosts of American Writing,” supported by a Government of Ireland postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the Irish Research Council (then the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences) and undertaken at the School of English, University College Cork. I gratefully acknowledge this support, as well as that of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Research Committee and the School of Culture and Communication (previously, the School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) at the University of Limerick which, in addition to making available conference and research funding, granted me a book completion award and sabbatical leave. Without these, I would not have been able to finish. While writing this book, I spent a memorable month at the Department of English, University of Stockholm. My thanks to Claudia Egerer, Paul Schreiber, and Francesco-Alessio Ursini for being wonderful hosts and especially to Adnan Mahmutović for sharing his desk and his home with me. I spent some time also in the Humanities Reading Rooms at the British
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