On Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon by Alexander Manshel

Document Type

Book Review

Authors

Pieter Vermeulen, University of LeuvenFollow

Author Biography

Pieter Vermeulen is a professor of American and Comparative Literature at the University of Leuven. He is the author of Romanticism after the Holocaust (2010), Contemporary Literature and the End of the Novel (2015) and Literature and the Anthropocene (2020), and a coeditor of, among others, Institutions of World Literature (2015) and special issues on “Contemporary Literature and/as Archive” (2020) and “Pluralizing the Minor” (2024). His current book project is on the grammar of literary value in twenty-first-century literature.

Abstract

Review of Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon by Alexander Manshel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. Pp. 352. $140.00 hardcover; $35.00 paperback.

Recommended Citation

Vermeulen, Pieter (2023) "On Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon by Alexander Manshel," Criticism: Vol. 65: Iss. 4, Article 7.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/criticism/vol65/iss4/7