A pinnacle of feeling: American literature and presidential government
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | XIV, 248 S. |
ISBN: | 9780691136950 |
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adam_text | There is no more powerful symbol in American
political life than the presidency, and the
image of presidential power has had no less
profound an impact on American fiction. A
Pinnacle of Feeling is the first book to exam¬
ine twentieth-century literature s deep fasci¬
nation with the modern presidency and with
the ideas about the relationship between
state power and democracy that under¬
wrote the rise of presidential authority.
Sean McCann challenges prevailing criti¬
cal interpretations through revelatory new
readings ot major writers, including Richard
Wright, Gertrude Stein, Henry Roth,
Zora
Neale Hurston, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison,
Norman Mailer, Don Delillo, and Philip Roth. He
argues that these writers not only represented
or satirized presidents, but echoed political
thinkers who cast the chief executive as the
agent of the sovereign will of the American
people. They viewed the president as ideally
a national redeemer, and they took that ideal
as a model and rival for their own work,
A Pinnacle of Feeling illuminates the funda¬
mental concern with democratic sovereignty
that informs the most innovative literary works
of the twentieth century, and shows how
these works helped redefine and elevate the
role of executive power in American culture.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
The Executive Disease : Presidential Power and Uterary Imagination 1
CHAPTERONE
Masters of Their Constitution: Gertrude Stein and the Promise
of Progressive Leadership 33
CHARTER TWO
Govemable Beasts: Hurston, Roth, and the New Deal 67
CHARTER THREE
The Myth of the Public Interest: Pluralism and Presidentialism
intheFifties 100
CHAPTERFOUR
Come Home, America: Vietnam and the End of the
Progressive Presidency 139
EPH.OQUE
Philip Roth and the Waning and Waxing of Political Time 178
Notes 197
Index 243
|
adam_txt |
There is no more powerful symbol in American
political life than the presidency, and the
image of presidential power has had no less
profound an impact on American fiction. A
Pinnacle of Feeling is the first book to exam¬
ine twentieth-century literature's deep fasci¬
nation with the modern presidency and with
the ideas about the relationship between
state power and democracy that under¬
wrote the rise of presidential authority.
Sean McCann challenges prevailing criti¬
cal interpretations through revelatory new
readings ot major writers, including Richard
Wright, Gertrude Stein, Henry Roth,
Zora
Neale Hurston, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison,
Norman Mailer, Don Delillo, and Philip Roth. He
argues that these writers not only represented
or satirized presidents, but echoed political
thinkers who cast the chief executive as the
agent of the sovereign will of the American
people. They viewed the president as ideally
a national redeemer, and they took that ideal
as a model and rival for their own work,
A Pinnacle of Feeling illuminates the funda¬
mental concern with democratic sovereignty
that informs the most innovative literary works
of the twentieth century, and shows how
these works helped redefine and elevate the
role of executive power in American culture.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
"The Executive Disease": Presidential Power and Uterary Imagination 1
CHAPTERONE
Masters of Their Constitution: Gertrude Stein and the Promise
of Progressive Leadership 33
CHARTER TWO
Govemable Beasts: Hurston, Roth, and the New Deal 67
CHARTER THREE
The Myth of the Public Interest: Pluralism and Presidentialism
intheFifties 100
CHAPTERFOUR
Come Home, America: Vietnam and the End of the
Progressive Presidency 139
EPH.OQUE
Philip Roth and the Waning and Waxing of Political Time 178
Notes 197
Index 243 |
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