Politics and the Novel,9781566634618

Politics and the Novel

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ISBN13: 9781566634618
ISBN10: 156663461X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-09-01
Publisher(s): Natl Book Network
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Summary

"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, including DeForests' "Playing the Mischief, " Adams' "Democracy, " James' "The Bostonians, " and Hawthorne's "The Bilthedale Romance." he also 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(10)
David Bromwich
Preface 11(4)
I.
The Idea of the Political Novel
15(10)
Stendhal: The Politics of Survival
25(26)
Dostoevsky: The Politics of Salvation
51(25)
Conrad: Order and Anarchy
76(38)
Turgenev: The Politics of Hesitation
114(25)
Henry James: The Political Vocation
139(20)
II.
Some American Novelists: The Politics of Isolation
159(44)
III.
Malraux, Silone, Koestler: The Twentieth Century
203(32)
Orwell: History as Nightmare
235(17)
Epilogue: Politics and the Novel After Politics and the Novel 252

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