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Part One Toward Wallace; 1 Something Both and Neither: Marshes, Marriage, and the Fertile Invention of John Barth's The Tidewater Tales; 2 The Awful Way Back to We: Crackpot Realism and Ironic Liberalism in Richard Powers's Prisoner's Dilemma; Part Two The Wallace Effect; 3 The Rival Lover: David Foster Wallace and the Anxiety of Influence in Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot; 4 The Varieties of Irony: Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children and the Comedy of Redemption
5 Competitive Friendship: Love and Reckoning in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom6 Against Wallace: Amy Hungerford, Lauren Groff, and the Resistance to Genius; Conclusion: Love and Cruelty; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index
5 Competitive Friendship: Love and Reckoning in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom6 Against Wallace: Amy Hungerford, Lauren Groff, and the Resistance to Genius; Conclusion: Love and Cruelty; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index