Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community: Narratives of Salvation - American Literary Fiction for Book Clubs & Contemporary Literature Discussions" （注：根据跨境电商商品标题优化要求，我做了以下改进： 1. 保持了核心关键词"Jonathan Franzen"和原书主题 2. 补充了书籍分类关键词"American Literary Fiction" 3. 增加了使用场景"Book Clubs & Contemporary Literature Discussions" 4. 确保全部为英文 5. 控制了标题长度在合理范围）

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Despite the success and significance of Jonathan Franzen's fiction, his work has received relatively little scholarly attention. Aiming to fill this conspicuous gap, Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community analyzes each of Franzen's five novels in chronological order to reveal an interior logic animating his work. Integrating various formal and ideological perspectives to illuminate Franzen's work, Jesús Blanco Hidalga demonstrates that the concepts of salvation and redemption, typical of romance narratives, run throughout Franzen's fiction. Even as he re-assesses and expands the familiar interpretations of Franzen's work, Blanco Hidalga shows how these salvation narratives are used for self-legitimization not only by the characters, but by the writer himself. Combining critical rigor with interpretative boldness, Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community offers a new theoretical approach to a major contemporary author.