"Politics and the Novel" clarifies the role of revolutionary ideas in fiction, establishing the role of the political novel, and tracing the growth of this novel into the 20th century. Examples are drawn from such classics as Stendhal's "The Red and the Black", Dostoevsky's "The Possessed", Conrad's "The Secret Agent" and Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons". Howe examines how American novels failed to integrate ideology into their works and discusses political fiction after World War II: Kundera's "Book of Laughter and Forgetting", Naipaul's "Bend in the River", and Solzhenitsyn's "The First Circle", among others.
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A classic work on its subject by one of the country's most celebrated intellectual figures.
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The Bostonians, The Possessed, The Politics of Isolation, Henry James, Stepan Trofimovitch, The Twentieth Century, The Politics of Salvation, The Politics of Hesitation, Under Western Eyes, New England, The Secret Agent, Olive Chancellor, The Politics of Survival, Brook Farm, The Princess Casamassima, Man's Fate, Basil Ransom, The Blithedale Romance, The Political Vocation, Pyotr Verhovensky, Varvara Petrovna, Julien Sorel, The Charterhouse, Winston Smith, Verena Tarrant Browse Sample Pages:
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