American Postmodernity Essays on the Recent Fiction of Thomas Pynchon

"... the collection is an important contribution to Pynchon studies." (Manfred Kopp, Amerikastudien/American Studies)
"...this perceptive book of essays is a welcome contribution to Pynchon studies, and to the study of contemporary U.S. literature and culture." (Erik S. Roraback, Pynchon Notes)

The Editor: Ian D. Copestake (1969) was born on the Wirral and graduated from Warwick University in 1991 with a BA Hons degree in English and American literature. He completed an M.A. in American Literature at University of Leeds (1992-1993) and later received a Ph.D. at the University of Leeds (1993-2000). His thesis subject was the poetry of William Carlos Williams (twentieth-century American poetry).

He is a research fellow in American literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt. The author of various articles and reviews relating to his interests in contemporary American fiction and twentieth-century poetry, he is also editor of Rigor of Beauty: Essays in Commemoration of William Carlos Williams.