Professor or Dr. Michael J. Blouin (Milligan U Associate Professor

The Presidents of American Fiction

Fashioning the U.S. Political Imagination

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Surveys the evolution of the Commander-in-Chief within the American imagination, studying the President as a figure that has long shaped-and been shaped by-literary movements"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 229mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9781501381690
• ISBN-10: 1501381695
• Artikelnr.: 63400653

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Blouin is Associate Professor of English and the Humanities at Milligan University, USA, where he co-founded and now directs the Honors Program. He serves as chair for Literature, Politics, and Society for the Popular Culture Association (PCA/ACA), and is the author of Stephen King and American Politics (2021) and Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972 - 2017 (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

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