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Howard Fast - A Critical Companion (Hardcover, New)
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Howard Fast - A Critical Companion (Hardcover, New)
Series: Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers
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Howard Fast, one of the most prolific American writers of the 20th
century, has enjoyed wide popularity for his writing and suffered
from great notoriety for his politics, but has never been given
full credit for his contribution to the essential tales of American
culture, the American Revolution, and immigrant acculturation.
Although his novels have sold close to eighty million copies, this
is the first book-length critical study of his work. In addition to
an overview of his fiction, it offers close, critical readings of
his historical novels of the American Revolution, Citizen Tom
Paine, April Morning, and his most recent, Seven Days in June; his
novels about slavery, Freedom Road and Spartacus; and his popular
series about the American experience, The Immigrants. A
biographical chapter is partly based on an extensive interview
granted by Fast exclusively for this book. A comprehensive
bibliography completes the work. This critical study begins with a
biographical chapter that links life and works, showing how Fast
transmuted his experience into fiction. Macdonald asserts that for
all Fast's notoriety as a Communist in the 1940s and 1950s, his
works show him to be deeply committed to the principles that
inspired the American Revolution. A chapter on literary background
discusses all of Fast's major works and most of his minor ones,
placing the historical novels into literary context and the other
works into their genre traditions. The remaining six chapters focus
on his most important individual novels. Each novel is analyzed for
plot structure, characterization, and thematic elements. In
addition, Macdonald defines and applies alternative critical
perspectives from which to readeach novel. A genealogy table for
The Immigrants series, and a complete, up-to-date bibliography of
all of Fast's nearly one hundred published works, as well as
selected reviews and background reading, make this study invaluable
for research and critical understanding. This study of Fast's
classic works of historical fiction will aid the student and
support the interdisciplinary American history/literature
curriculum.
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