Irving Howe’s classic investigation of the role of revolutionary ideas in fiction is here reprinted in a new paperback edition. In establishing the role of the political novel and tracing its growth into the twentieth century, Mr. Howe draws his examples from Stendhal’s The Red and the Black, Dostoevsky’s The Possessed, Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, and Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons. He also explains why American novels failed to integrate ideology, including Henry Adams’s Democracy, Henry James’s The Bostonians, and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance. His discussion of political fiction after World War II touches on Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The First Circle, among others. In all, Politics and the Novel offers the most enduring and authoritative view of the subject.
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A classic work on its subject by one of our most celebrated intellectual figures. (Mitchell Cohen )
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(Mitchell Cohen, Bernard M. Baruch College, CUNY ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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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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