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The Presidents of American Fiction (Blouin, Michael J.)
The Presidents of American Fiction
Untertitel Fashioning the U.S. Political Imagination
Autor Blouin, Michael J.
Verlag Bloomsbury eBooks US
Sprache Englisch
Mediaform Adobe Digital Editions
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
Seiten 224 S.
Artikelnummer 42358738
ISBN 978-1-5013-8171-3
Auflage 22001 A. 1. Auflage
Plattform EPUB
Kopierschutz DRM Adobe
CHF 32.50
Zusammenfassung

The Presidents of American Fiction brings together American literature, history, and political science to explore the most influential fictionalized accounts of the presidency from the early 19th century to the time of Trump. Of late, popular understandings of the presidency are being radically re-written-consider, for example, the distinctive myths that accompanied the ascent of the Obama and Trump administrations-and many readers of all stripes are radically reimagining the office and its holder. Placing these changes within a broader cultural context, Michael J. Blouin investigates narratives involving fictional presidents, from the supposedly factual to the outright fantastical, within their distinct literary and historical moments.

The author considers representative texts including works penned by James Fenimore Cooper from the Jacksonian moment, Gore Vidal in the age of Nixon and Vietnam, and Philip Roth in the neoliberal period. Through detailed readings that question how American presidents function as characters within the popular imagination, this book examines the presidency as a complex, ever-evolving trope, and in so doing enhances our appreciation of American literature's inextricable link with American politics.

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).