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xiii, 255 p. : ill. |
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Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 15 |
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Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 15.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: life is more important than art or social engineering, eutopia, and evolution -- How I stopped worrying and loved behavioural engineering, or communal life, adaptations, and B.F. Skinner's Walden two -- You're not in Canada until you can hear the loons crying, or voting, people's power, and Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest -- You'll never make a monkey out of me, or altruism, proverbial wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's grace -- We better kill the instinct to kill before it kills us, or violence, mind control, and Walker Percy's The Thanatos syndrome -- It can't happen here, or politics, emotions, and Philip Roth's The plot against America. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Political fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Utopias in literature.
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Social control in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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Exceptionalism -- United States.
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Social engineering -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780415891929 (hbk.) |
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0203816617 (master e-book) |
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9780203816615 (electronic bk.) |
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