I aim to read through Amy Elias’s bibliography of texts, in English and translation, that she calls metahistorical romances, found in her book SUBLIME DESIRE: HISTORY AND POST 1960s FICTION. I try to sketch out her concept HERE. There are overlaps of some titles with the McCaffrey 100 list.
Ackroyd, CHATTERTON
–, HAWKSMOOR
–, MILTON IN AMERICA
Apple, THE PROPHETEER
Banes, FLAUBERT’S PARROT
Banville, DOCTOR COPERNICUS
Barker, THE GHOST ROAD
Barth, THE SOT-WEED FACTOR
Bell, ALL SOULS’ RISING
Berger, LITTLE BIG MAN
Boyle, WORLD’S END
–, THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE
Burgess, A DEAD MAN IN DEPTFORD
Coetzee, FOE
Coover, THE PUBLIC BURNING
Crace, THE GIFT OF STONES
Crace, QUARANTINE
DeLillo, LIBRA
Dexter, DEADWOOD
Doctorow, RAGTIME
Eco, THE NAME OF THE ROSE
Erickson, ARC D’X
–, LEAP YEAR
Findley, FAMOUS LAST WORDS
Fowles, THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN
–. A MAGGOT
Fuentes, TERRA NOSTRA
Frazier, COLD MOUNTAIN
Glancy, PUSHING THE BEAR
Grass, THE FLOUNDER
Johnson, DREAMER
–, MIDDLE PASSAGE
William, LEGS
Kurzweil, A CASE OF CURIOSITIES
Malouf, REMEMBERING BABYLON
Steven, MARTIN DRESSLER
Valerie, ALL GOOD WOMEN
Momaday, THE WAY TO RAINY MOUNTAIN
Morante, HISTORY: A NOVEL
Norfolk, LEMPRIERE’S DICTIONARY
Philips, CAMBRIDGE
–, CROSSING THE RIVER
Powers, GAIN
Pynchon, GRAVITY’S RAINBOW
–, MASON & DIXON
Reed, FLIGHT TO CANADA
–, MUMBO JUMBO
Schama, DEAD CERTAINTIES (UNWARRANTED SPECULATIONS)
Sherwood, VINDICATIONS
Silko, ALMANAC OF THE DEAD
Silko, CEREMONY
Smiley, THE ALL-TRUE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF LIDIE NEWTON
Sontag, THE VOLCANO LOVER
Spiegelman, MAUS
Suskind, PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDER
Swift, WATERLAND
Thomas, THE WHITE HOTEL
Thorpe, ULVERTON
Unsworth, SACRED HUNGER
Vollmann, SEVEN DREAMS: FATHERS AND CROWS, THE ICE SHIRT, THE RIFLES, ARGALL, THE DYING GRASS
Vonnegut, SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
Walker, THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR
Williams, STAR TURN
Winterson, THE PASSION
–, SEXING THE CHERRY
Wolf, CASSANDRA
Zencey, PANAMA
