Political Theory and American Literature: A Guide through the Archive - Danielle Charette,
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These fourteen original essays on the politics of literature investigate aspects of our
understanding of the political muse, with a focus on American writing since World War II …

In this essay, I pursue two related claims. One is that American literature is recurrently read
by theorists as a form of flight from politics, a view they argue in various ways by deploying a …

This thesis deploys works of literature, political theory and intellectual history to reach an
understanding of both the specific form and the content taken by the American political …

This volume proposes the 'poetics of politics' as an analytic angle to interrogate
contemporary cultural production in the United States. As recent scholarship has observed …

In a 1980 essay titled “The American Political Novel,” Robert Alter bemoaned the state of a
form that, in his mind, had “reached a stage of nervously accelerated production and …

Surprisingly, two of the most influential theorists of American literature have been a French
sociologist and a transplanted English poet: Alexis de Tocqueville and WH Auden. In …

I argue that, especially if we want to consider what the study of American political thought
has to offer the study of American political development, we must look at the use that …

This essay starts from the apparent disconnect between democracy and the State in
American literary studies. Taking the case of antebellum US literature (James Fenimore …

American literature is profoundly, almost inescapably political. America's most thoughtful
authors long ago realized that it was through the novel, the novella, and the story that …