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04320aam a2200409 i 4500 001 651EF93ADCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 210322t20212021nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021004543 020 $a 1640141138 020 $a 9781640141131 035 $a (OCoLC)1249707862 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YUS $d OBE $d IAI $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS374.A83 $b P64 2021 082 00 $a 813.009/3556 $2 23 100 1 $a PoÌhlmann, Sascha, $e author. 245 10 $a Vote with a bullet : $b assassination in American fiction / $c Sascha PoÌhlmann. 264 1 $a Rochester, New York : $b Camden House, $c 2021. 300 $a 198 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a European studies in North American literature and culture 520 $a "Given that assassination is such a widespread trope in American culture, it is surprising that there is no scholarly monograph on assassination in American fiction providing either an overview or a critical assessment of the field. Vote with a Bullet achieves both, offering not only the first systematic study of American assassination fiction but also a coherent argument about its larger cultural, aesthetic, and political significance in the present moment as well as in the respective historical contexts of the works themselves. This study argues that American assassination fiction offers a symbolic condensation of the larger conflict between individual and society that is at the heart of modern democracy, and that has been especially contested in the democratic culture of the US. Starting with Henry James's The Princess Casamassima (1886) and ending with Noah Hawley's The Good Father (2012), the study analyzes thirteen works that range from canonical classics (Penn Warren's All the King's Men) to science fiction (Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery)to popular genre fiction (Stephen King's The Dead Zone and 11/22/63) to historiographic metafiction (Don Delillo's Libra). It finds a loose yet identifiable continuum of assassination fiction, an imaginary laboratory in which fantasies of individual empowerment and/or social unity play out in very different ways. The texts combine aesthetics and politics to negotiate the tension between individualism and mass society in a democracy that is based on the former, which it must nevertheless restrict if it is to constitute the latter. Furthermore, the study connects the imaginary of assassination with a variety of related themes such as hegemonic masculinity and whiteness, electoral and non-electoral political choice, agency panic, subjectivity, conspiracies and conspiracy theory, and the respective sociohistorical context of each publication, with a particular view to how different generic frameworks have shaped varieties of assassination fiction at certain points in American history"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: The Individual and Society -- Henry James, The Princess Casamassima (1886) -- Jack London, The Assassination Bureau, Ltd. (1910/63) -- Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men (1946) -- Philip K. Dick, Solar Lottery (1955) -- Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate (1959) -- Loren Singer, The Parallax View (1970) -- Don DeLillo, Libra (1988) -- Stephen King, The Dead Zone (1979) -- Stephen King, 11/22/63 (2011) -- Mark Costello, Big If (2002) -- Nicholson Baker, Checkpoint (2004) -- Noah Hawley, The Good Father (2012) -- Conclusion. 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a Assassination in literature. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a Assassination in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00818973 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a PoÌhlmann, Sascha. $t Vote with a bullet $d Rochester : Camden House, 2021 $z 9781800102187 $w (DLC) 2021004544 830 0 $a European studies in North American literature and culture. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023607.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=651EF93ADCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search