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political novel. This is an important chapter and contains some homely wisdom on the different approaches respectively of the novelist and the political scientist. It should be stressed that certain crucial points with respect to the analysis of human behavior in general can b...
political novel. This is an important chapter and contains some homely wisdom on the different approaches respectively of the novelist and the political scientist. It should be...
2. Chapter One. THE STUDY OF THE POLITICAL NOVEL 1The Importance of the Political Novel 1 The Nature of the Political Novel: Problems of Definition and Selection 1 Characteristics of the Political Novel 3 The Novelist and the P...
3. Chapter Two. THE NOVEL AS POLITICAL INSTRUMENT 10THE UNITED STATES 10 Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Civil War 10 Albion Tourgée: The Blunders of Reconstruction 11 Perennial Theme: Corruption 12 _Upton Sinclair: Corruption Plus...
4. Chapter Three. THE NOVELIST AS POLITICAL HISTORIAN 28GREAT BRITAIN 29 George Eliot: The Early Nineteenth Century in the Midlands 30 Benjamin Disraeli and Anthony Trollope: Whigs v. Tories 30 George Meredith: The Early Radical 31 M...
5. Chapter Four. THE NOVEL AS MIRROR OF NATIONAL CHARACTER 486. Chapter Five. THE NOVELIST AS ANALYST OF GROUP POLITICAL7. Chapter Six. THE NOVELIST AS ANALYST OF INDIVIDUALMotivation 79 Moral Problems and Changing Values 81 The Successful Politician 82 Political Pathology: Deviates, Martyrs, and Authoritarians 84 Men Behind the Scenes 88 The Disil...
8. chapter oneIn an age in which progressively more men have engaged in politics while the politics themselves have become increasingly complex, any means for understanding these interrelated...
9. chapter twoA political novel written from a point of view favoring a particular faction is a political instrument in effect even if not in intent. A writer may sternly tell himself at the...
10. chapter threeIf Art imitates Nature, the political novel imitates History. In almost all these novels the starting point is a series of actual happenings. Filtered through the artist’s consc...
11. vivid. Both the Whig and Radical candidates hire mobs of miners andnavvies to demonstrate for them. The result is a bloody riot quelled by troops. Harold Transóme is a corrupt Radical; his foil is Holt, the honest Radical charged with a murder...
12. chapter fourA political novel invariably reveals the attitude of its author toward the national groups from which its characters come. Often the author may seek to draw a national portrait...
13. chapter fiveThe economic criterion is one of two means used by the political novel for classifying groups. The other index identifies groups by means of overt political behavior--party memb...
14. chapter sixNo one has written a real political novel--giving the real feel of politics. The French try to be funny or clever, and the English are too moral and abstract. You don’t get the...
15. book one hears about the fiery La Pasionaria, and in _The Age ofLonging_ and _Nostromo_ the actions of two women evoke mention of the name of Charlotte Corday. In Conrad’s novel Antonia Avellanos is as fierce a patriot as her father Don José...
16. chapter sevenIn some areas of this study only the main outlines have been sketched in. Good books have probably been omitted, particularly in European literatures. Some mediocre ones, especi...