num_pages: 164
description: A beginner's guide to Updike's novels, this textbook emphasizes the fiction in terms of its responsiveness to historical and social developments, paying particular attention to his treatment of sexuality and the interaction between narrative poetics and social content. Updike's relationship to the formal development of the modern novel is highlighted. Dr Newman has also written "Saul Bellow and History".
language: English
title: John Updike
titlecomplete: John Updike (Modern Novelists)
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan