Literary Interventions in the Campaign Biography

著者名：Blouin, Michael J.

Routledge（2021/11/28発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780367676940
• eISBN：9781000471649

Description

Literary Interventions in the Campaign Biography considers campaign biographies written by major authors including Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Lew Wallace, Jacob Riis, and Rose Wilder Lane. Whereas a number of cultural historians have previously considered campaign biographies to be marginal or isolated from the fictional output of these figures, this volume revisits the biographies in order to understand better how they inform, and are informed by, seismic shifts in the literary landscape. The book illuminates the intersection of American literature and politics while charting how the Presidency has developed in the public imagination. In so doing, it poses questions of increasing significance about how we understand the office as well as its occupants today.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Campaign Biography as American Literature
2. Presidential Biographies and the Knickerbockers
3. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the (Im)perfect President
4. William Dean Howells and the Real American President
5. Interlude: Wolcott Balestier and the Candidate’s Secret
6. Lew Wallace, Benjamin Harrison, and the Historical Romance
7. Jacob Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Art of Adoration
8. Rose Wilder Land and the Frontier Candidate
9. The Campaign Autobiography