Pluralist Desires: Contemporary Historical Fiction and the End of the Cold War

In sum, Pluralist Desires achieves an impressively compact revaluation of a number of novels written between the end of the Cold War and the early 2000s that may, at first glance, not share as much as Löf?er ably shows they do. Pluralist Desires is an inescapable book for students of the authors it discusses, of historical fiction, and of contemporary literature. AMERIKASTUDIEN

[T]he juxtaposition of seemingly disparate novels . ultimately proves successful, illuminating the value and logic of subjective experience in the contemporary historical novel and renewing fruitful discourse on the ways in which we read these texts. SYMPLOKE

Focusing on historical novels written in the 1990s through the 2000s, this study of post-Cold War US literary culture . provides a genealogy of cultural pluralist thought in the United States, outlining the resonant historical influences of Friedrich Nietzsche and William James. AMERICAN LITERATURE