Vote with a Bullet - Assassination in American Fiction

Conceptualizes the genre of American assassination fiction as a dramatization of the tension between individualism and mass society in US culture.

List of contents

Introduction: The Individual and Society
1. Henry James, The Princess Casamassima (1886)
2. Jack London, The Assassination Bureau, Ltd. (1910/63)
3. Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men (1946)
4. Philip K. Dick, Solar Lottery (1955)
5. Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate (1959)
6. Loren Singer, The Parallax View (1970)
7. Don DeLillo, Libra (1988)
8. Stephen King, The Dead Zone (1979)
9. Stephen King, 11/22/63 (2011)
10. Mark Costello, Big If (2002)
11. Nicholson Baker, Checkpoint (2004)
12. Noah Hawley, The Good Father (2012)
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Sascha Pöhlmann

Summary

Conceptualizes the genre of American assassination fiction as a dramatization of the tension between individualism and mass society in US culture.

Product details

• Authors: Professor Sascha Poehlmann, Sascha Poehlmann, Sascha Pohlmann, Sascha Pöhlmann
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781640141131
• ISBN: 978-1-64014-113-1
• No. of pages: 206
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 231 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: European Studies in North American Literature and Culture; European Studies in North Amer
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)