Politics and the Novel

By Irving Howe

Book Overview

Politics and the Novel clarifies the role of revolutionary ideas in fiction, establishing the role of the political novel, and tracing the growth of this novel into the 20th century. Examples are drawn from such classics as Stendhal's The Red and the Black, Dostoevsky's The Possessed, Conrad's The Secret Agent and Turgenev's Fathers and Sons.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023107994X
• ISBN13: 9780231079945
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher