The Cambridge companion to the twentieth-century American novel and politics /

Surveying the relationship between American politics and the twentieth-century novel, this volume analyzes how political movements, ideas, and events shaped the American novel. It also shows how those political phenomena were shaped in turn by long-form prose fiction. The book is made up of three ma...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Santin, Bryan Michael
Weitere Verfasser:
Santin, Bryan Michael (HerausgeberIn)
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
Surveying the relationship between American politics and the twentieth-century novel, this volume analyzes how political movements, ideas, and events shaped the American novel. It also shows how those political phenomena were shaped in turn by long-form prose fiction. The book is made up of three major sections. The first section considers philosophical ideologies and broad political movements that were both politically and literarily significant in the twentieth-century United States, including progressive liberalism, conservatism, socialism and communism, feminism, and Black liberation movements. The second section analyzes the evolving political valences of key popular genres and literary forms in the twentieth-century American novel, focusing on crime fiction, science fiction, postmodern metafiction and immigrant fiction. The third section examines ten diverse politically-minded novels that serve as exemplary case studies across the century. Combining detailed literary analysis with innovative political theory, this Companion provides a groundbreaking study of the politics of twentieth-century American fiction.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xv, 374 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Anmerkungen:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2023).
ISBN:
9781009034562
1009034561
9781009034760
1009034766
9781009030274
1009030272
Schlagworte:
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Political fiction, American > History and criticism.
American literature > Political aspects.
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