The International Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300198003)

Annabel Patterson here turns her well-known concern with political history in early modern England into an engine for investigating our own era and a much wider terrain. The focus of this book is, broadly, nationalism and internationalism today, approached not theoretically but through the lens of fiction. Novels are uniquely capable of dealing with abstract problems by embodying them in the experience of persons, thereby rendering them more "real." Patterson takes twelve novels from (almost) all over the world: India, Africa, Turkey, Crete, the Balkans, Palestine, Afghanistan, South America, and Mexico, novels which illustrate the dire effects of some of the following: imperialism, partition, annexation, ethnic and religious strife, boundaries redrawn by aggression, the virus of dictatorships, the vulnerability of small countries, and the meddling of the Great Powers. All are highly instructive, and excellent reads.

Author: Annabel Patterson
ISBN-10: 0300198000
ISBN-13: 9780300198003
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2014
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.57w x 0.72d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2015 pg. 968