Politics and the Novel
Irving Howe(Author)
Columbia University Press
Published on 1. October 1992
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-231-07994-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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An intelligent, penetrating, lucid, graceful persuasive and altogether splendid book. The New RepublicMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-07994-5 (9780231079945)
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Person
Irving Howe is one of the most visible, respected, and controversial members of the socialist/urban socialist community. He is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the Graduate Center, CUNY.