The Cambridge Companion to John Updike Book

Introduction: 'A sort of helplessly 50's guy' Stacey Olster;

Part I. Early Influences and Recurrent Concerns:

1. Updike, middles, and the spell of 'subjective geography' D. Quentin Miller;
2. 'Nakedness' or realism in Updike's early short stories Kristiaan Versluys;
3. Updike, religion, and the novel of moral debate Marshall Boswell;

Part II. Controversy and Difference:
4. Updike, women, and mythologized sexuality Kathleen Verduin;
5. Updike, race, and the postcolonial project Jay Prosser;
6. Updike, ethnicity, and Jewish-American drag Sanford Pinsker;

Part III. American Chronicles:
7. Updike, American history, and historical methodology Edward Vargo;
8. Updike, Hawthorne, and American literary history James Plath;
9. Updike, film, and American popular culture James A. Schiff;
10. John Updike, Rabbit Angstrom, and the myth of American exceptionalism Donald J. Greiner; Conclusion: U(pdike) & P(ostmodernism) John N. Duvall; Select bibliography.