Read The Modern American Political Novel: 1900-1960

The Modern American Political Novel: 1900-1960

Joseph Blotner

4.9/5 (9612 ratings)

Description:Politics, the workings of government and of people in government, has long been a fertile field for exploration by the novelist. The political arena offers many examples of conflict—between individuals, groups, or the individual and the group, or within the individual. It is natural then that a sizable body of fiction has grown up using politics as a main source of action.In this study Joseph Blotner attempts "to discover the image of American poIitics as presented in American novels over a sixty-year span." His major discussion is limited to 138 novels dealing directly with candidates, officeholders, party officials, or "individuals performing political acts as they are conventionally understood." He also refers to nineteenth-century predecessors, European analogues, or other twentieth-century American novels as they bear on his discussions.Blotner gives a thorough examination of certain archetypal figures (the young hero, the political boss, and the Southern demagogue), which appear in central or subordinate positions in the action of many political novels. He finds that the novels reflect certain major movements or upheavals in the political history of the United States or the world (in particular, fascism and McCarthyism), and that they also give the political aspects of universal attitudes or problems (corruption, disillusionment, reaction, and the role of women and of the intellectual). The author presents a detailed analysis of each of these subjects, prefacing each analysis by a survey of the historical background out of which the fiction grew, and including a brief and often pungent assessment of the literary merits of each novel discussed. He also surveys a large body of political fiction which cuts across all of these the novel of the future—both utopian and apocalyptic.The Modern American Political Novel will be of great interest to the student of twentieth-century literature; the political scientist, the sociologist, and even the practicing politician will also find its analyses useful and illuminating.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Modern American Political Novel: 1900-1960. To get started finding The Modern American Political Novel: 1900-1960, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0292763670

Description: Politics, the workings of government and of people in government, has long been a fertile field for exploration by the novelist. The political arena offers many examples of conflict—between individuals, groups, or the individual and the group, or within the individual. It is natural then that a sizable body of fiction has grown up using politics as a main source of action.In this study Joseph Blotner attempts "to discover the image of American poIitics as presented in American novels over a sixty-year span." His major discussion is limited to 138 novels dealing directly with candidates, officeholders, party officials, or "individuals performing political acts as they are conventionally understood." He also refers to nineteenth-century predecessors, European analogues, or other twentieth-century American novels as they bear on his discussions.Blotner gives a thorough examination of certain archetypal figures (the young hero, the political boss, and the Southern demagogue), which appear in central or subordinate positions in the action of many political novels. He finds that the novels reflect certain major movements or upheavals in the political history of the United States or the world (in particular, fascism and McCarthyism), and that they also give the political aspects of universal attitudes or problems (corruption, disillusionment, reaction, and the role of women and of the intellectual). The author presents a detailed analysis of each of these subjects, prefacing each analysis by a survey of the historical background out of which the fiction grew, and including a brief and often pungent assessment of the literary merits of each novel discussed. He also surveys a large body of political fiction which cuts across all of these the novel of the future—both utopian and apocalyptic.The Modern American Political Novel will be of great interest to the student of twentieth-century literature; the political scientist, the sociologist, and even the practicing politician will also find its analyses useful and illuminating.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Modern American Political Novel: 1900-1960. To get started finding The Modern American Political Novel: 1900-1960, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

The Modern American Political Novel: 1900-1960

The Modern American Political Novel: 1900-1960

More Books

All the King's Men

All the King's Men

Light in August

Light in August

Faulkner: A Biography (Southern Icons Series)

Faulkner: A Biography (Southern Icons Series)

Rare Frederick L Gwynn / FAULKNER IN THE UNIVERSITY Class Conferences 1st ed 1959 [Hardcover] Gwynn, Frederick L. and Joseph L. Blotner (Editors

Rare Frederick L Gwynn / FAULKNER IN THE UNIVERSITY Class Conferences 1st ed 1959 [Hardcover] Gwynn, Frederick L. and Joseph L. Blotner (Editors

An Unexpected Life

An Unexpected Life

FAULKNER: BIOG-1 VOL ED Rev Sub edition by Blotner, Joseph (1984) Hardcover

FAULKNER: BIOG-1 VOL ED Rev Sub edition by Blotner, Joseph (1984) Hardcover

Selected Letters of William Faulkner

Selected Letters of William Faulkner

Robert Penn Warren:: A Biography

Robert Penn Warren:: A Biography

Rare Joseph Blotner / Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner 1st Edition 1979 - NY: Random House, 1979 [Hardcover] Blotner, Joseph

Rare Joseph Blotner / Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner 1st Edition 1979 - NY: Random House, 1979 [Hardcover] Blotner, Joseph