Michael J. Blouin

Literary Interventions in the Campaign Biography (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. In so doing, it poses questions of increasing significance about how we understand the office as well as its occupants today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000471649
• Artikelnr.: 62641242

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Blouin, PhD, is an Associate Professor in English and the Humanities at Milligan University. His areas of interest include nineteenth-century American literature, politics, and popular culture. He and co-author Tony Magistrale were recently awarded the Carl Bode prize for best essay from the Journal of American Culture in 2019. He was also invited to serve as guest editor for a special issue of the Journal of Popular Culture entitled "Neoliberalism and Popular Culture" (2018). Blouin's other works include Stephen King and American Politics (2021), as well as Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972-2017 (2018). He received his doctorate in American Studies from Michigan State University in 2012. He currently resides in East Tennessee with his wife and two daughters.

Inhaltsangabe

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