Politics and the Novel

By Irving (editor) Howe

The classic investigation of the role of revolutionary ideas in fiction. Mr. Howe establishes the role of the political novel and traces its growth into the twentieth century; he explains why American novels failed to integrate ideology; and he discusses political fiction after World War II. An intelligent, penetrating, lucid, graceful, persuasive, and altogether splendid book. --New Republic. With an Introduction by David Bromwich.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081801170X
• ISBN13: 9780818011702
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: New Amer Library
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.