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Politics and the Novel

by Irving Howe
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Overview

Irving Howe's classic investigation of the role of revolutionary ideas in fiction is here reprinted in a new paperback edition.

Synopsis

The classic investigation of the role of revolutionary ideas in fiction. Mr. Howe establishes the role of the political novel and traces its growth into the twentieth century; he explains why American novels failed to integrate ideology; and he discusses political fiction after World War II. An intelligent, penetrating, lucid, graceful, persuasive, and altogether splendid book. --New Republic. With an Introduction by David Bromwich.

The New Republic

An intelligent, penetrating, lucid, graceful, persuasive, and altogether splendid book.

About the Author, Irving Howe

Irving Howe is one of the most visible, respected, and controversial members of the socialist/urban socialist community. He is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Columbia University Press

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Editorials

Nation

An important book.

New Republic

An intelligent, penetrating, lucid, graceful, persuasive, and altogether splendid book.

The Nation

An important book.

The New Republic

An intelligent, penetrating, lucid, graceful, persuasive, and altogether splendid book.

The New Republic

An intelligent, penetrating, lucid, graceful persuasive and altogether splendid book.

Book Details

Published
January 1, 2002
Publisher
Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
Pages
272
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781566634618

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