| Description |
xviii, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Tennessee studies in literature ; volume 48
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Tennessee studies in literature ; v. 48.
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| Summary |
"This collection of essays looks at politics in American fiction and fictional elements in American politics. Authors under consideration include William Dean Howells, Henry Adams, Robert Penn Warren, Dave Burrell, and contemporary cultural manifestations like the TV show 24"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Politics of Fictions / The death and life of American Adam: Myth and the contemporary American political novel, Christopher Hebert -- Be yourself declarations of independence: Nineteenth-century literature for twenty-first-century citizenship, Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson -- A day-dream, and yet a fact: Universal emancipation in The Blithedale Romance, Luke Bresky -- Speaking as Americans to Americans: James Russell Lowell's Harvard commemoration ode and the idea of nationhood, Stephen J. Adams -- Imprisoned in the present: Class conflict as trauma in W. D. Howell's A Hazard of New Fortunes, Mathew Blanshei -- Lockean fundamentalism and the American literary tradition: The Case of Henry James, David Witzling -- Character and charismatic authority in Robert Penn Warren's All the kings men and Edwin O'Connor's The last hurrah, Anthony Hutchison -- Gentle Provocateur: Richard Brautigan, San Francisco, and The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966, Jerry Giddens -- Part II. Fictions of Politics / Failures of consensus: Contesting election sermons in Puritan New England, Meredith Marie Neuman -- Tribal sovereignty, Native American literature, and the complex legacy of Hendrick Aupaumut, Katy L. Chiles -- Dave Burrell's Baghdad blues: Fiction, race, and history in 1950s Iraq, Martin Griffin -- The whole United States is Southern: Country music and the selling of Southern conservatism in the Nixon era, J. Lester Feder -- Apocalypse now and the charm school: Film, literature, and the making of CNN's "Tailwind" disaster, Jerry Lembcke -- 24: The following takes place in rea time, Thomas Doherty -- Chagrin and the politics of American aesthetics, Constance DeVereaux |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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Politics and literature -- United States.
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Politics and literature. |
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United States. |
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Politics in literature.
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Politics in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Essays.
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Essays.
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| Added Author |
Griffin, Martin, 1956- editor.
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Hebert, Christopher, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Stories of nation. Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2017] 9781621902775 (DLC) 2017006538 |
| ISBN |
1621902765 hardcover |
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9781621902768 hardcover |
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