The Cambridge companion to the twentieth-century American novel and politics / edited by Bryan Santin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Santin, Bryan Michael, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to topics.

Cambridge companions to topics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Political fiction, American--History and criticism.

Political fiction, American.

American literature--Political aspects.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 374 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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. The book is made up of three major sections. The first section considers philosophical ideologies and broad political movements that were both politically and literarily significant in the twentieth-century United States, including progressive liberalism, conservatism, socialism and communism, feminism, and Black liberation movements. The second section analyzes the evolving political valences of key popular genres and literary forms in the twentieth-century American novel, focusing on crime fiction, science fiction, postmodern metafiction and immigrant fiction. The third section examines ten diverse politically-minded novels that serve as exemplary case studies across the century. Combining detailed literary analysis with innovative political theory, this Companion provides a groundbreaking study of the politics of twentieth-century American fiction.

Contents:

Progressive liberalism / Johannes Voelz

Conservatism / Stephen Schryer

Neoliberalism / Mitchum Huehls

Socialism and communism / Mark W. Van Wienen

Feminisms / Jean Lutes

Sexual liberation movements / Guy Davidson

Black liberation movements / Sheena Michele Mason and Dana A. Williams

Crime fiction / Andrew Pepper

Science fiction / Jason Haslam

Western fiction / Stephen J. Mexal

Literary realist fiction / Matthew Shipe

Immigrant fiction / Heather Hathaway

Gothic horror fiction / Kevin Corstorphine

Postmodern metafiction / Rob Turner

Herland (1915) : Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Cynthia J. Davis

It can't happen here (1935) : Sinclair Lewis / Christopher Vials

All the King's men (1946) : Robert Penn Warren / Jonathan S. Cullick

Invisible man (1952) : Ralph Ellison / Nathaniel Mills

The left hand of darkness (1969) : Ursula K. Le Guin / Tony Burns

If Beale Street could talk (1974) : James Baldwin / Douglas Field

The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) : Edward Abbey / Christopher K. Coffman

Ceremony (1977) : Leslie Marmon Silko / Sandra M. Gustafson

Parable series (1993, 1998) : Octavia E. butler / Claire P. Curtis

The underground railroad (2016) : Colson Whitehead / Bryan M. Santin.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2023).

ISBN:

9781009034562

1009034561

9781009034760

1009034766

9781009030274

1009030272