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"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"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction Bryan M. Santin; Part I. Ideologies and Movements: 1. Progressive liberalism Johannes Voelz; 2. Conservatism Stephen Schryer; 3. Neoliberalism Mitchum Huehls; 4. Socialism and communism Mark W. Van Wienen; 5. Feminisms Jean Lutes; 6. Sexual liberation movements Guy Davidson; 7. Black liberation movements Sheena Michele Mason and Dana A. Williams; Part II. The Politics of Genre and Form: 8. Crime Fiction Andrew Pepper; 9. Science fiction Jason Haslam; 10. Western Fiction Stephen J. Mexal; 11. Literary Realist Fiction Matthew Shipe; 12. Immigrant Fiction Heather Hathaway; 13. Gothic horror fiction Kevin Corstorphine; 14. Postmodern metafiction Rob Turner; Part III. Case Studies: 15. Herland (1915): Charlotte Perkins Gilman Cynthia J. Davis; 16. It Can't Happen Here (1935): Sinclair Lewis Christopher Vials; 17. All the King's Men (1946): Robert Penn Warren Jonathan S. Cullick; 18. Invisible Man (1952): Ralph Ellison Nathaniel Mills; 19. The Left Hand of Darkness (1969): Ursula K. Le Guin Tony Burns; 20. If Beale Street Could Talk (1974): James Baldwin Douglas Field; 21. The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975): Edward Abbey Christopher K. Coffman; 22. Ceremony (1977): Leslie Marmon Silko Sandra M. Gustafson; 23. Parable Series (1993, 1998): Octavia E. Butler Claire P. Curtis; 24. The Underground Railroad (2016): Colson Whitehead Bryan M. Santin.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Bryan M. Santin is Associate Professor of English at Concordia University Irvine. He is the author of Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism: A Literary History, 1945—2008 (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
