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Politics and the novel

Title
Politics and the novel / author.
Author
Howe, Irving
Publication
  • New York : Horizon Press, [1957]
  • ©1957.

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TextUse in library PN3448.P6 H6 1957Off-site

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Additional Authors
  • Blackmur, R. P. (Richard P.), 1904-1965
  • Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Jewish American Writers NjP
Description
251 p.; 19 cm.
Subject
  • Politics in literature
  • Political fiction > History and criticism
  • Political fiction
  • Politics in literature
  • Politik
  • Politischer Roman
  • Roman
  • Großbritannien
  • USA
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Ex copy 1: Gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 in honor of President Harold T. Shapiro.
  • Ex copy 2: Presentation copy to R. P. Blackmur with his signature on front free endpaper; card from author inserted between pages 28 and 29: "For Richard--Who helped make it possible--Irving."
Contents
1. The idea of the political novel -- Stendhal: the politics of survival -- Dostoevsky: the politics of salvation -- Conrad: order and anarchy -- Turgenev: the politics of hesitation -- Henry James: the political vocation -- 2. Some American novelists: the politics of isolation -- 3. Malraux, Silone, Koestler: the twentieth century -- Orwell: history as nightmare.
LCCN
57006683
OCLC
  • ocm02972100
  • 2972100
  • SCSB-436025
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library