Imagining a Great Republic - Political Novels and the Idea of America

In the first comprehensive reading of dozens of American literary and social culture classics, Tom Cronin, one of America's most astute students of the American political tradition, tells the story of the American political experiment through the eyes of forty major novelists, from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Hunter S. Thompson.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: American Political Storytelling
Chapter 2: The Tribe of the Eagle and Its Political Narratives
Chapter 3: The Novelist as Political Agitator
Chapter 4: The Novelist as Political Consciousness Raiser
Chapter 5: The Novelist as Political Satirist
Chapter 6: The Novelist on the Campaign Trail
Chapter 7: The Novelist as Political Anthropologist

Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Thomas E. Cronin

Summary

In the first comprehensive reading of dozens of American literary and social culture classics, Tom Cronin, one of America's most astute students of the American political tradition, tells the story of the American political experiment through the eyes of forty major novelists, from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Hunter S. Thompson.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas E Cronin, Thomas E. Cronin, Cronin Thomas E.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781538105719
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0571-9
• No. of pages: 468
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; USA, English, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Leadership, Politics & government, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Politics and government, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, america;american literature;political novels;republic;satire