Redefining the Political Novel

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Redefining the Political Novel is written by Sharon M. Harris and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 087049869X (ISBN 10) and 9780870498695 (ISBN 13).

While critical studies of the American political novel date from the 1920s, such considerations of the genre have failed, whether wittingly or unwittingly, to recognize works by women. The exclusion is usually based on a distinction between "social" novels and "political" novels, and the result is an understanding of the "political" as a largely male province. In this thought-provoking collection of essays, the contributors seek not simply to add works by women to the canon of political novels but, rather, to demand a conceptual revolution - one that questions the very precepts on which the canon is based. This redefinition of the political novel takes many factors into account, including gender, race, and class and their relation to our most basic conceptions of literary and aesthetic value.