# The political novel

Author: Blotner, Joseph, 1923-2012

Genre: Category: Literature - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68060

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+political+novel+Blotner&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 be raised by comparing the techniques of the two kinds of observers and reporters. The well-known remark about pictures being worth thousands of words has occasionally been transposed to the effect that one good story is worth a whole (and dry) textbook. This, of course, is an attractive argument. But it does raise the fundamental question of what analytical operations are performed by the novelist on the one hand and...

## Chapters

- [chapter two](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-political-novel-68060/chapters/9/index.md)
- [vivid. Both the Whig and Radical candidates hire mobs of miners and](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-political-novel-68060/chapters/11/index.md)
- [chapter five](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-political-novel-68060/chapters/13/index.md)
- [chapter four](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-political-novel-68060/chapters/12/index.md)
- [chapter six](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-political-novel-68060/chapters/14/index.md)
- [chapter one](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-political-novel-68060/chapters/8/index.md)
- [chapter seven](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-political-novel-68060/chapters/16/index.md)
- [chapter three](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-political-novel-68060/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter One discusses some problems arising from a study of the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-political-novel-68060/chapters/1/index.md)
- [book one hears about the fiery La Pasionaria, and in _The Age of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-political-novel-68060/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter Three. THE NOVELIST AS POLITICAL HISTORIAN 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-political-novel-68060/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter Two. THE NOVEL AS POLITICAL INSTRUMENT 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-political-novel-68060/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter Four. THE NOVEL AS MIRROR OF NATIONAL CHARACTER 48](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-political-novel-68060/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter Five. THE NOVELIST AS ANALYST OF GROUP POLITICAL](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-political-novel-68060/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter One. THE STUDY OF THE POLITICAL NOVEL 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-political-novel-68060/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter Six. THE NOVELIST AS ANALYST OF INDIVIDUAL](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-political-novel-68060/chapters/7/index.md)