Power and Class in Political Fiction Elite Theory and the Post-War Washington Novel /

• Main Author: Smit, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Cultural policy.; United States-Politics and government.; Literary Theory.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Cultural Policy and Politics.; US Politics.

This book introduces Elite Theory to the literary study of class as a framework for addressing issues of the nature of governance in political fiction. The book describes the historical development and major tenets of Elite Theory, and shows how each of four post-war Washington novels-Gore Vidal...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter One Elites, Class, and Power
• Chapter Two Gore Vidal's Washington D.C.: Maintaining Legitimacy
• Chapter Three Allen Drury's Advise and Consent: Elite Ideology
• Chapter Four Joan Didion's Democracy: The Elite as Celebrities
• Chapter Five: Ward Just's Echo House: Implementing Policy
• Conclusion.