The political novel :
Scheingold, Stuart A.
The political novel : re-imagining the twentieth century / Stuart A. Scheingold. - New York : Continuum, c2010. - vii, 262 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-256) and index.
Novels of political estrangement: subversion of agency in the twentieth century --
Anti-war novels in the twentieth century: the road to late modernity --
The alchemy of catastrophe: seeking spiritual solace in the ashes of the Holocaust --
Aftermath of disaster: the Nazi legacy --
The contradictions of democracy: political estrangement in the U.S. and the U.K. --
Re-imagining the twentieth century, remembering the twenty-first. TOC
Summary:
Reveals how novels of political estrangement have drawn on cultural narratives to capture the zeitgeist of the 20th Century and the disillusionment of modernism. In this book, the author adds political novels to those inquiries and argues that they make a distinctive and hitherto neglected contribution to the collective memory of the 20th Century.
9781441176394 (pbk.) 1441148078
Political fiction--History and criticism.
Fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Politics and literature.
Politics in literature.
808.3 / SCP 2010
The political novel : re-imagining the twentieth century / Stuart A. Scheingold. - New York : Continuum, c2010. - vii, 262 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-256) and index.
Novels of political estrangement: subversion of agency in the twentieth century --
Anti-war novels in the twentieth century: the road to late modernity --
The alchemy of catastrophe: seeking spiritual solace in the ashes of the Holocaust --
Aftermath of disaster: the Nazi legacy --
The contradictions of democracy: political estrangement in the U.S. and the U.K. --
Re-imagining the twentieth century, remembering the twenty-first. TOC
Summary:
Reveals how novels of political estrangement have drawn on cultural narratives to capture the zeitgeist of the 20th Century and the disillusionment of modernism. In this book, the author adds political novels to those inquiries and argues that they make a distinctive and hitherto neglected contribution to the collective memory of the 20th Century.
9781441176394 (pbk.) 1441148078
Political fiction--History and criticism.
Fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Politics and literature.
Politics in literature.
808.3 / SCP 2010