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03492aam a2200445 i 4500 001 AA1621CCA18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161103010209 008 151118t20162016nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015038230 020 $a 1628926341 020 $a 9781628926347 020 $a 1628926333 020 $a 9781628926330 035 $a (OCoLC)908262485 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d CDX $d STF $d COO $d ZCU $d PUL $d DEBSZ $d ZWZ $d OCLCO $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d YUS $d OCL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS374 B56 L32 2016 100 1 $a Lackey, Michael, $e author. 245 14 $a The American biographical novel / $c Michael Lackey. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Bloomsbury Academic, $c 2016. 300 $a ix, 278 pages; $c 22 cm 520 $a "Before the 1970s, there were only a few acclaimed biographical novels. But starting in the 1980s, there was a veritable explosion of this genre of fiction, leading to the publication of spectacular biographical novels about figures as varied as Abraham Lincoln, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and Marilyn Monroe, just to mention a notable few. This publication frenzy culminated in 1999 when two biographical novels (Michael Cunningham's The Hours and Russell Banks' Cloudsplitter) were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and Cunningham's novel won the award. In The American Biographical Novel, Michael Lackey charts the shifts in intellectual history that made the biographical novel acceptable to the literary establishment and popular with the general reading public. More specifically, Lackey clarifies the origin and evolution of this genre of fiction, specifies the kind of 'truth' it communicates, provides a framework for identifying how this genre uniquely engages the political, and demonstrates how it gives readers new access to history"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "The American Biographical Novel examines the rise of this genre of fiction, how it engages and historicizes the political, the unique kind of 'truth' it communicates, and how it contributes to our collective understanding of culture and consciousness"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The Rise and Legitimization of the American Biographical Novel -- The Fictional Truth of the Biographical Novel: The Case of Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Surrealism, Historical Representation, and the Biographical Novel -- Zora Neale Hurston and the Art of Political Critique in the Biblical Biographical Novel -- Dual Temporal Truths in the Biographical novel -- The Biographical Novel: A Misappropriated Life or a Truthful Fiction?. 650 0 $a Biographical fiction, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Historical fiction, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Truth in literature. 650 0 $a History in literature. 650 0 $a Politics in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and history $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 856 42 $3 Cover image $u http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/347/9781628926347/image/lgcover.9781628926347.jpg 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018022416.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170304031908.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AA1621CCA18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search