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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"--
List of contents
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.
About the author
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).
