Title
The Novel
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
2021
Abstract
This chapter provides readers with a sense of the various ways Mailer experimented with and contributed to the novel form, as he tried his hand at everything from political allegory to detective novel to spy thriller to ancient epic, among other novelistic genres. The chapter contextualizes Mailer’s novels within their various genres and offers an overview of his development within the form.
Editor
Maggie McKinley
DOI
10.1017/9781108774413.009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
9781108477666
Repository Citation
Balbert, P. (2021). The novel. In M. McKinley (Ed.), Norman Mailer in context (pp. 69-79). Cambridge University Press. http://doi.org/10.1017/9781108774413.009
Publication Information
Norman Mailer in Context
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