Political fiction
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Political fiction is a subgenre of fiction which deals in some way with political affairs. Often, political fiction uses narrative, fictional prose to provide commentary on political events, systems, and theories. Works of political fiction often "directly criticize an existing society or... present an alternative, sometimes fantastic, reality. (1)" Prominent pieces of political fiction include the anti-communist dystopias of the early 20th century, though earlier pieces of political fiction such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and Gulliver's Travels are of equal if not greater prominence and import.
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[edit] Classic Political fiction
- Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes
- Nostromo (1904) by Joseph Conrad
- Simplicissimus (1668) by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
- The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
- Pharaoh (1895) by Bolesław Prus
- Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift
- Persian Letters (1721) by Montesquieu
- Candide (1759) by Voltaire
- Barnaby Rudge (1841) by Charles Dickens
- The Betrothed (1842) by Alessandro Manzoni
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1887) by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Looking Backward (1888) by Edward Bellamy
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Palliser novels (1864–1879) by Anthony Trollope
- All the King's Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948) by George Orwell
- The Manchurian Candidate (1959) by Richard Condon
- Advise and Consent (1959) by Allen Drury
- Seven Days in May (1962) by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey
- Primary Colors (1996) by Joe Klein (as "Anonymous")
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[edit] Politics in Science Fiction
- the Mars trilogy (1990s) by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, (1974) by Ursula Le Guin
[edit] Notes
- "HIST 294 - Political Fiction", December 12, 2005