Political ideologies often informed early twentieth-century French novels, creating a hybrid genre that is both "realist" and didactic: the roman thse. In this ground-breaking and critically acclaimed work, Susan Suleiman looks beyond the politics of novels by such authors as Ma…
The formation of a world genre : the political novel -- Forming the core -- Global migration : the Far East -- Bringing the world home : the political novel in China -- The migration of literary forms : transcultural flow and the Japanese model -- "Reform of governance" and the …
"David Caute's wide-ranging study examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and history. In the United States and Western Europe the political novel flourished in the 1930s and 1940s, the crisis years of economic de…
