Authoritarianism and Class in American Political Fiction: Elite Pluralism and Political Bosses in Three Post-War Novels

ISBN-13: 9781032188201 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 206 str.

David Smit

Opis

This book analyzes what many critics consider to be the three best examples of modern American political fiction—Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, Edwin O’Connor’s The Last Hurrah, and Billy Lee Brammer’s The Gay Place—to address a specific problem in American governance.

O autorze

David Smit is Professor Emeritus of English at Kansas State University, where he taught for twenty-nine years and was director of the Expository Writing Program for two five-year terms. His special interests are writing theory, Henry James, modern drama, and post-war American literature and culture, especially the political fiction of the period.