Political fiction and the American self /
John Whalen-Bridge.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1998.
- xii, 206 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-198) and index.
Political fiction as impurity in American literary criticism -- Submerged revolution in Moby-Dick -- How to read a revolutionary novel : The iron heel -- Adamic purity as double-agent in Harlot's ghost -- Invisible prophet : Sula peace, 1965 -- Conclusion : politics and interpretation in America.
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