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  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: An Overview of Everett’s Life and Career
    1. To Be (or Not to Be) from South Carolina
    2. An Everett in Motion Tends to Stay in Motion
    3. Five Novels, Four Residences
    4. A Relatively Young Man Goes West
    5. Farther into the City and Further into the Spotlight
    6. After Erasure, a Deluge of Publications
    7. Meta-Everett in Full Effect
  7. Chapter 2: Everett and Menippean Satire
    1. The Importance of Earnest Jesting
    2. Subversive and Degenerative Satire
  8. Chapter 3: Five Exemplary Menippean Satires
    1. The Forms, Topics, and Devices of Menippean Satire
    2. Formal Multiplicity
    3. Linguistic and Philosophical Multiplicity
  9. Chapter 4: Menippean Satire through Tonal Multiplicity
    1. Thematic Heterogeneity
    2. Grotesque
    3. Madness
  10. Chapter 5: The Menippean West
    1. Frontiers, Old and New
    2. Watershed Moments and Historical Wounds
    3. Unmaking Assumptions
  11. Conclusion: A Post-Soul (but Not Post-Racial) Postscript
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index

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