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IMAGINING A GREAT REPUBLIC: POLITICAL NOVELS AND THE IDEA By Thomas E. Cronin
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- ISBN-10
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- Publication Name
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781538105719
- Book Title
- Imagining a Great Republic : Political Novels and the Idea of America
- Item Length
- 9.3in
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- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2017
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Political Science
- Topic
- Political Process / General, American / General, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Political Ideologies / Democracy, American Government / State
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- 6.4in
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- Number of Pages
- 468 Pages
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In the first comprehensive reading of dozens of American literary and social culture classics, Tom Cronin, one of America's most astute students of the American political tradition, tells the story of the American political experiment through the eyes of forty major novelists, from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Hunter S. Thompson. They have been moral and civic consciousness-raisers as we have navigated the zigs and zags, the successes and setbacks, and the slow awkward evolution of the American political experiment. Constitutional democracy, equal justice for all, the American Dream, and American Exceptionalism are all part of our country's narrative. But, as Imagining a Great Republic explains, there has never been just a single American narrative-we have competing stories, just as we have competing American Dreams and competing ways of imagining a more perfect political union. Recognizing and understanding these competing values is a key part of being American. Cronin's book explains how this is possible and why we should all be proud to be American.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1538105713
ISBN-13
9781538105719
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237516755
Product Key Features
Book Title
Imagining a Great Republic : Political Novels and the Idea of America
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Political Process / General, American / General, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Political Ideologies / Democracy, American Government / State
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Literary Criticism, Political Science
Number of Pages
468 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
26.6 Oz
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Ps374.P62
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Who would have guessed that this distinguished scholar of politics and the presidency also possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of American political novels, or that he could write about them with such sympathy and insight, no matter what their point of view? Tom Cronin's latest book is a revelation regarding the role of literature in imagining, and shaping, our republic., When American political reality is confounding - like, say, today - there can be enlightenment in fiction. Tom Cronin's smart, engaging, expansive tour of political novels turns out to be timely in ways he couldn't have foreseen. The novels explored in Imagining a Great Republic - from classics such as Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to less well-known works such as Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona -- take us back to basics: The aspirations from our founding and the challenges we've faced in trying to achieve them. Political novelists tend to be optimists, he notes, but ones with a sharp understanding that our fragile democratic experiment is constantly being tested - by slavery, by corruption, by dogma, by would-be despots. Cronin shows how storytellers long have served to remind us of what America is, and what we want it to be. That's a good thing to remember these days., "The United States has always been more an idea than a place, an in Imagining a Great Republic, Thomas Cronin unpacks the many paradoxes, contrasts and conflicts that comprise what it means to be "American." Using the political novel as his guide, Cronin navigates the varying interpretations of the American Dream as imagined by idealists and pragmatists, democrats and autocrats, freedom-seekers and equality-demanders, always sensitive to the nuances of context as well as the clashes of aspirations. This magisterial work is indispensable for understanding who we are as well as who we might yet become.", Tom Cronin writes with panache and much insight about heroes of mine like Steinbeck, Roth, Morrison, Heller, Abbey, Harper Lee, Howard Fast, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Nathanel West. With a lineup like this, you pretty much can't go wrong - and Cronin doesn't., Tom Cronin writes with panache and much insight about heroes of mine like Steinbeck, Roth, Morrison, Heller, Abbey, Harper Lee, Howard Fast, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Nathanael West. With a lineup like this, you pretty much can't go wrong - and Cronin doesn't., After two engaging chapters on how US novelists--from the late 17th century to the near present--reflect the US political landscape, Cronin (Colorado College) devotes the remaining five chapters to the novelist's role as political agitator, political consciousness raiser, political satirist, campaigner, and, finally, political anthropologist. These chapters examine, among others, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harper Lee, Toni Morrison, Henry Adams, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, Joseph Heller, and Philip Roth. In the preface Cronin identifies these individuals as "tribal storytellers" and their novels as "moral and civic consciousness raisers." This is an important and timely book, and the author combines his enormous knowledge of political science with lively and sensitive insights on literary criticism. A helpful "select bibliography" lists earlier treatments of this subject.... Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above.
Table of Content
Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: American Political Storytelling Chapter 2: The Tribe of the Eagle and Its Political Narratives Chapter 3: The Novelist as Political Agitator Chapter 4: The Novelist as Political Consciousness Raiser Chapter 5: The Novelist as Political Satirist Chapter 6: The Novelist on the Campaign Trail Chapter 7: The Novelist as Political Anthropologist Epilogue Selected Bibliography Index About the Author
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2017-019698
Dewey Decimal
813.0093581
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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