The presidents of American fiction : fashioning the U.S. political imagination /: fashioning the U.S. political imagination. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael J. Blouin.
• Authors: Blouin, Michael J
• Contents: AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Moving Portraits of the President 1. James Fenimore Cooper's Exceptional Presidents2. George Lippard and the Gothic President3. Williams Wells Brown and the Disembodied President4. The President in Books for Boys5. The President in Books for Girls6. Hamlin Garland, Ulysses S. Grant, and the Tortured Heart of American Realism7. Gore Vidal and the Performative Presidency8. The Imperial Presidents of American LiteratureEpilogue: George Saunders and Presidential Melancholia ReferencesIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 813.009351; American fiction -- History and criticism; Presidents in literature; Political fiction, American -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- United States -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501381713; 9781501381720
• Related ISBNs: 9781501381706; 9781501381690
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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