Alexandra Kingston-Reese, Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life

Abstract

Alexandra Kingston-Reese, Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life University of Iowa Press, 2019. Pp. xv + 200. ISBN-13 978-1-60938-675-7 Ian Ellison, ZEIT-Stiftung Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach “What is the good of the arts if they’re interchangeable?” Margaret Schlegel asks in E. M. Forster’s 1910 novel Howards End, responding in exasperation to her sister Helen’s persistent attempts to translate music into the langu...