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1990 Bardes and Gossett Declarations of Independence: Women and Political Power in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
1990 Malcolm Cowley The Portable Malcolm Cowley
1990 Eagleton, Jameson, Said Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature
1990 Lee Horsley Political Fiction and the Historical Imagination
1990 Pearlman and Henderson A Voice of One’s Own: Conversations with America’s Writing Women
1990 Ishmael Reed Writin’ is Fightin’: Thirty-Seven Years of Boxing on Paper
1990 Claudia Tate Black Women Writers at Work [Angelou, Bambara, Brooks, Deveaux, Jones, Lorde, Morrison, Sanchez, Walker, etc…]
1991 Arac and Ritvo, Eds. Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature
1991 Best and Kellner Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations [“Marxism, Feminism…Political Postmodernism,” “…Critical Social Theory”…]
1991 Carol Gelderman, Ed. Conversations with Mary McCarthy
1991 Christopher T. Harvie The Centre of Things: Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present
1991 Philomena Mariani Critical Fictions: The Politics of Imaginative Writing [“The Novel’s Next Step” by Maxine Hong Kingston (“Global novel”)]
1991 Paula Rabinowitz Labor and Desire: Women’s Revolutionary Fiction in Depression American
1991 Margaret Randall Walking to the Edge: Essays of Resistance [“Art as Information”…]
1991 Ruland and Bradbury From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature [“Muckrakers…” “Radical Reassessments”…]
1991 Thomas H. Schaub American Fiction in the Cold War
1992 David Cayley Northrop Frye in Conversation
1992 Morris Dickstein Double Agent: The Critic and Society
1992 Jane DeRose Evans The Art Of Persuasion: Political Propaganda From Aeneas To Brutus
1992 Maureen Whitebrook Ed. Reading Political Stories: Representations of Politics in Novels and Pictures
1992 Winn and Alexander, Eds. The Slaughter-House of Mammon: An Anthology of Victorian Social Protest Literature
1993 Barbara Foley Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941 [“Art or Propaganda?” “…Didacticism”…]
1993 Toni Morrison Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
1993 Tobin Siebers Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism
1993 Gore Vidal United States: Essays 1952-1992
1994 Dorothy Allison Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature [“Believing in Literature”…]
1994 Carol Becker, Ed. The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society, and Social Responsibility [“Decolonizing the Imagination”…]
1994 Harold Bloom The Western Canon
1994 G. W. Bowersock Fiction as History: Nero to Julian
1994 Richard Chapple, Ed. Social and Political Change in Literature and Film
1994 Michael Hanne Power of the Story: Fiction and Political Change [revised edition, 1996?]
1994 H. L. Mencken A Second Mencken Chrestomathy [Essays, 1916-1948]
1994 Edward Said Culture and Imperialism
1994 Edward Said Representations of the Intellectuals [“Speaking Truth to Power”…]
1994 Williams and Chrisman, Eds. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader
1995 Becker and Wiens, Eds. The Artist in Society: Rights, Roles, and Responsibilities [“…the Crisis of Democracy,” “Democracy and…the Artist”…]
1995 David Bell Ardent Propaganda: Miners’ Novels And Class Conflict 1929-1939
1995 Dick and Singh, Eds. Conversations with Ishmael Reed
1995 Mark Edmundson Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida: A Defense of Poetry
1995 Stanley Fish Political Correctness: Studies and Political Change [“Disciplinary Tasks and Political Intentions”…]
1995 Sharon M. Harris, Ed. Redefining the Political Novel: American Women Writers, 1797-1901 [“Literary Politics and the Political Novel”…]
1995 Alfred Kazin Writing Was Everything
1995 Judith K. Proud Children And Propaganda: Fiction And Fairy Tale In Vichy France
1995 Anne C. Ruderman The Pleasures of Virtue: Political Thought in the Novels of Jane Austen
1995 Mary Ellen Snodgrass Encyclopedia of Utopian Literature
1996 Nelson Algren Nonconformity: Writing on Writing
1996 Josephine M. Guy The Victorian Social-Problem Novel: The Market, the Individual, and Communal Life
1996 Horton and Baumeister Literature and the Political Imagination
1996 Russell Reising Loose Ends: Closure and Crisis in the American Social Text [“The Political Work of Disney’s Dumbo”…]
1996 David H. Richter Narrative/Theory [“Richard Wright: ‘Blueprint for Negro Writing’ ”…]
1996 Nora Ruth Roberts Three Radical Women Writers: Class and Gender in Meridel le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, and Josephine Herbst
1996 Mary Ellen Snodgrass Encyclopedia of Satirical Literature
1997 Toby Clark Art And Propaganda In The Twentieth Century: The Political Image In The Age Of Mass Culture
1997 Mark Edmundson Nightmare on Elm Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of the Gothic
1997 Bettina Friedl, Ed. On To Victory: Propaganda Plays Of The Woman Suffrage Movement
1997 Nibir K. Ghosh Calculus of Power: Modern American Political Novel
1997 Hassler and Wilcox, Eds. Political Science Fiction
1998 James Baldwin Collected Essays [selections, beginning 1949]
1998 Robert Cole, Ed. International Encyclopedia Of Propaganda
1998 Ursula Lord Solitude Versus Solidarity in the Novels of Joseph Conrad: Political and Epistemological Implications of Narrative…
1998 Richard Rorty Achieving Our Country [“The Inspirational Value of Great Works of Literature”…]
1998 Alice Walker Anything We Love Can Be Saved
1998 John Whalen-Bridge Political Fiction and the American Self [“The Problem of the American Political Novel”…]
1998 Mary Whitby Propaganda Of Power: The Role Of Panegyric In Late Antiquity
1999 Dorrit Cohn The Distinction of Fiction
1999 Hazel Arnett Ervin, Ed. African American Literary Criticism, 1773-2000 [“1895-1954: Art or Propaganda?” “1955-1975: Cultural Autonomy…”…]
1999 Robert Fulford The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture [“Literature of the Streets…the Shaping of News”…]
1999 Gordon Hutner, Ed. American Literature, American Culture [“Everybody’s Protest Novel” (J. Baldwin), “Harriet Beecher Stowe” (E. Wilson)”…]
1999 Clifford Siskin The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britain, 1700-1830
1999 Nuria Vilanova Social Change and Literature in Peru: 1970-1990
1999 James Wood The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief [“Legacy of…Renan and…Arnold,” “Against Paranoia:…Don DeLillo”]
2000 Joan Acocella Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism [“Politics and Criticism”…]
2000 Camille Bacon-Smith Science Fiction Culture
2000 H. Bruce Franklin Vietnam and Other American Fantasies
2000 Christopher Hitchens Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
2000 Kathryn Hume American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction Since 1960 [“The Fragility of Democracy”…]
2000 David Laskin Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals
2000 Michael McKeon, Ed. Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach
2000 Laura Miller The salon.com Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Authors: …The Most Fascinating Writers of Our Time
2000 Winston Napier, Ed. African American Literary Theory: A Reader
2000 Christina Stansell American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century;
2000 Lionel Trilling The Moral Obligation To Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
2001 Susan Johnston Women and Domestic Experience in Victorian Political Fiction
2001 Elizabeth Maslen Political and Social Issues in British Women’s Fiction, 1928-1968
2001 Elizabeth Morgan Aeroplane Mirrors: Personal and Political Reflexivity in Post-Colonial Women’s Novels
2001 Margaret Scanlan Plotting Terror: Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction
2002 Bill Ashcroft, et. al. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures
2002 Margaret Atwood Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
2002 Brenda Ayers Frances Trollope and the Novel of Social Change
2002 Maxwell Geismar Reluctant Radical: A Memoir [“From Liberalism to Radicalism”…]
2002 Karin Verena Gunnemann Heinrich Mann’s Novels and Essays: The Artist as Political Educator
2002 Amy Kaplan The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture [“Romancing the Empire”…]
2002 B. R. Meyers A Reader’s Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose
2002 Louis Pizzitola Hearst Over Hollywood: Power, Passion, And Propaganda In The Movies
2003 Ralph Ellison The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
2003 H. Bruce Franklin Introduction to The Iron Heel by Jack London
2003 Marjorie Garber A Manifesto for Literary Studies
2003 Thomas J. Kemme Patterns of Power in American Political Fiction
2003 Todd Oakley Lutes Shipwreck and Deliverance: Politics, Culture and Modernity in the novels of [Paz, Marquez and Llosa]
2003 George Plimpton, Ed. Latin American Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews
2003 Howard Zinn Artists in Times of War and Other Essays
2004 Dale Peck Hatchet Jobs: Cutting Through Contemporary Literature
2004 James Wood The Irresponsible Self: Laughter and the Novel
2005 Patrick J. Deneen Reading America: The Politics of Art and the Art of Politics
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