The Presidents of American Fiction : Fashioning the U.S. Political Imagination

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The Presidents of American Fiction : Fashioning the U.S. Political Imagination

Blouin, Michael J.

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Bloomsbury Academic USA（2022/12発売）
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ポイント 171pt

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製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 224 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9781501381706
DDC分類 813.009351

Full Description

The Presidents of American Fiction brings together American literature, history, and political science to explore the most influential fictionalized accounts of the presidency from the early 19th century to the time of Trump. Of late, popular understandings of the presidency are being radically re-written—consider, for example, the distinctive myths that accompanied the ascent of the Obama and Trump administrations—and many readers of all stripes are radically reimagining the office and its holder. Placing these changes within a broader cultural context, Michael J. Blouin investigates narratives involving fictional presidents, from the supposedly factual to the outright fantastical, within their distinct literary and historical moments.

The author considers representative texts including works penned by James Fenimore Cooper from the Jacksonian moment, Gore Vidal in the age of Nixon and Vietnam, and Philip Roth in the neoliberal period. Through detailed readings that question how American presidents function as characters within the popular imagination, this book examines the presidency as a complex, ever-evolving trope, and in so doing enhances our appreciation of American literature's inextricable link with American politics.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Moving Portraits of the President
1. James Fenimore Cooper's Exceptional Presidents
2. George Lippard and the Gothic President
3. Williams Wells Brown and the Disembodied President
4. The President in Books for Boys
5. The President in Books for Girls
6. Hamlin Garland, Ulysses S. Grant, and the Tortured Heart of American Realism
7. Gore Vidal and the Performative Presidency
8. The Imperial Presidents of American Literature
Epilogue: George Saunders and Presidential Melancholia

References
Index